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ntment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great a sorrow suffereth now Arcite! Chaucer. The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. Rambler.

To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable. To sour your happiness I must report, The queen is dead. Shak.

To be; to have existence; to inhere. And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all. Pope.

Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable. If happinessbe a substantial good. Denham. The substantial ornaments of virtue. L'Estrange.

forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery. Tillotson.

that is hasty only to want. Prov. xxi. 5. The laws of our religion tend to the universal happiness of mankind. Tillotson.

End in time or existence; as, the termination of the year, or of life; the termination of happiness.

a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking. In such a world, so thorny, and where none Finds happiness unblighted, or, if found, Without some thistly sorrow at its side. Cowper.

repose. Milton. Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness. Addison.

reduced by foreign admixture; unmixed; unqualified; pure; as, unalloyed metals; unalloyed happiness. I enjoyed unalloyed satisfaction in his company. Mitford.

To deprive of happiness like that of paradise; to render unhappy. [R.] Young.

To deprive of state or dignity. [R.] High-battled Cæsar will unstate his happiness. Shak.

The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions. Bentham.

Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism. J. S. Mill.

or the like; greatest; as, the utmost assiduity; the utmost harmony; the utmost misery or happiness. He shall answer . . . to his utmost peril. Shak. Six or seven thousand is their utmost power. Shak.

anciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness.

uided by them. Milton. And vying malice with my gentleness, Pick quarrels with their only happiness. Herbert.

A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare. God . . . grant you wele and prosperity. Chaucer. As we love the weal of our souls and bodies. Bacon. To him linked in weal or woe. Milton. Never was there a time when it more concerned the public weal that the character of the…

Surrounded with happiness or prosperity. [Obs.] Fair and rich and young and wel-begone. Chaucer.

Prosperity; happiness; well-being; weal. [Obs.] Chaucer.