spiritedness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SPIRITEDNESS, noun 1. Life; animation. 2. Disposition or make of mind; used in compounds; as high-spiritedness, low-spiritedness, mean-spiritedness, narrow-spiritedness.
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