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Cheerfulness
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary
or A disposition of mind free from dejection. Opposed to gloominess. If we consider cheerfulness, says Addison, in three lights, with regard to ourselves, to those we converse with, and to the Great Author of our being, it will not a little recommend itself on each of these accounts. The man who is possessed of this excellent frame of mind is not only easy in his thoughts, but a perfect master of all the powers and faculties of his soul; his imagination is always clear, and his judgment undisturbed; his temper is even and unruffled, whether in action or in solitude. He comes with a relish to all those goods which Nature has provided for him, tastes all the pleasures of the creation which are poured about him, and does not feel the full weight of those evils which may befall him.
See HAPPINESS, JOY.
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Buck, Charles. Entry for 'Cheerfulness'. Charles Buck Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/cbd/c/cheerfulness.html. 1802.
