All 4 Uses
alacrity
in
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
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- and with the most perfect alacrity he welcomed the relationship, alluded to the past, and entreated to be received as an acquaintance already.†
Chpt 15 *alacrity = quickness; and/or cheerful eagerness
- They were only asked, she was sure, because Lady Dalrymple being kept at home by a bad cold, was glad to make use of the relationship which had been so pressed on her; and she declined on her own account with great alacrity—"She was engaged to spend the evening with an old schoolfellow."†
Chpt 17
- There could be only the most proper alacrity, a most obliging compliance for public view; and smiles reined in and spirits dancing in private rapture.†
Chpt 23
- Mrs Smith's enjoyments were not spoiled by this improvement of income, with some improvement of health, and the acquisition of such friends to be often with, for her cheerfulness and mental alacrity did not fail her; and while these prime supplies of good remained, she might have bid defiance even to greater accessions of worldly prosperity.†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(alacrity) quickness; and/or cheerful eagerness
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)