All 3 Uses of
alacrity
in
Emma
- With an alacrity beyond the common impulse of a spirit which yet was never indifferent to the credit of doing every thing well and attentively, with the real good-will of a mind delighted with its own ideas, did she then do all the honours of the meal, and help and recommend the minced chicken and scalloped oysters, with an urgency which she knew would be acceptable to the early hours and civil scruples of their guests.†
Chpt 1.3-4
- Emma was rather in dismay when only half a minute afterwards he began to speak of other things, and in a voice of the greatest alacrity and enjoyment.†
Chpt 1.13-14 *
- Mr. Knightley returned to his reading with greater alacrity.†
Chpt 3.15-16
Definition:
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(alacrity) quickness; and/or cheerful eagerness