Both Uses of
alacrity
in
Washington Square
- Nevertheless he had offered her a home under his own roof, which Lavinia accepted with the alacrity of a woman who had spent the ten years of her married life in the town of Poughkeepsie.†
Chpt 2 *
- But he was not for a single instant the dupe of her blundering alacrity; he knew that of what she promised she was competent to perform but an insignificant fraction, and the more she professed her willingness to serve him, the greater fool he thought her.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(alacrity) quickness; and/or cheerful eagerness