high-spiritedness
Example Sentences
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They choose to see Alison’s whiplash mania as high-spiritedness, and extend her their friendship—no small thing for this prickly, lonely woman.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
They wrote another song, Homemade Dynamite, about just such a phase of high-spiritedness.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2017
Suppose for a moment you think through a list of the opposites of those nine characteristics—bitterness, envy, hate, low-spiritedness, sulkiness, chafing, fretting, worrying, short-suffering, quick-temper, hot-temper, high-spiritedness, unsteadiness, unreliability, lack of control of yourself.
From Quiet Talks on Power by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)
The Highlanders are Scotch-Irish in their high-spiritedness and proud independence.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace
