Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- etc. See
sprightful , ete.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
sprightful ,sprightfully ,sprightliness ,sprightly , etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
spirited ,vivacious ,lively
Etymologies
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Examples
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O how jolly thou art, and how much am I bound to my gracious God, that hath been pleased to bestow on me a son so fair, so spriteful, so lively, so smiling, so pleasant, and so gentle!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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O how jolly thou art, and how much am I bound to my gracious God, that hath been pleased to bestow on me a son so fair, so spriteful, so lively, so smiling, so pleasant, and so gentle!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Sonic just moves so awkwardly in the trailer, compared to his spriteful days.
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Sonic just moves so awkwardly in the trailer, compared to his spriteful days.
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O how jolly thou art, and how much am I bound to my gracious God, that hath been pleased to bestow on me a son so fair, so spriteful, so lively, so smiling, so pleasant, and so gentle!
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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If his latter be not so spriteful and vigorous as his first pieces, all that are old will, and all who desire to be old should, excuse him therein. "
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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