HAPPINESS

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Good luck; good fortune; prosperity. All happiness bechance to thee in Milan! Shak.

2.
n.

An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.

3.
n.

Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language. Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness, as well as care. Pope.


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