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Joylessness

noun
1.
A feeling of dismal cheerlessness.





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"Joylessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... have made her town-bred daughter-in-law enamoured with the duties of a country life, and cheered the strange joylessness of her honeymoon. Failing in this attempt, she, with a covert sigh, half-pain, half-pleasure, resumed the old oversight of larder and dairy. Such care was then the delight of many an unsophisticated laird's helpmate; and, to the contented Lady of Staneholme, ...
— Girlhood and Womanhood - The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes • Sarah Tytler


Words linked to "Joylessness" :   cheerlessness, joyless, uncheerfulness


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