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alacrity
/ əˈlækrɪtɪ /
noun
- liveliness or briskness
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Derived Forms
- aˈlacritous, adjective
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Other Words From
- a·lacri·tous adjective
- una·lacri·tous adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of alacrity1
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Example Sentences
Down under, people endearingly call boxes of wine “goons,” and they drink them with alacrity.
When it comes to nuns, though, the church is somehow able to act with alacrity.
"Capital, capital," his lordship would remark with great alacrity, when there was no other way of escape.
Anselme, thus enjoined, lent an unwonted alacrity to his movements, waddling grotesquely like a hastening waterfowl.
Bernard, professing great alacrity, looked about him; but he still lingered near his companions.
This result comes only to those who carry out all the directions with genuine alacrity—not shirking one of them.
The quadroon was following them with little quick steps, having assumed a fictitious animation and alacrity for the occasion.
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