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"Great merriment"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (MIRTH).
Definitions
Gladness, amusement, or lively happiness expressed in laughter.
Word origin
From Middle English merth, myrthe, murhthe, from Old English myrġþ (“mirth, joy”), from Proto-West Germanic *murgiþu (“briefness, brevity”); equivalent to merry + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch merchte (“pleasure, joy, delight”).
Used in a sentence
“But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.”
“To this speech Bingley made no answer; but his sisters gave it their hearty assent, and indulged their mirth for some time at the expense of their dear friend's vulgar relations.”
“And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.”
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