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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

Cheerfulness.

[Obs.]

There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with

cheerishness

Milton.

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Cheer′less-ly

adv.

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Cheer′less-ness

Noun.

Syn. – Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; disconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.

Noun.

State of cheerfulness.

cheerishness ‎(uncountable)

(obsolete) cheerfulness
There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. — Milton.