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good humour

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Noun1.good humour - a cheerful and agreeable mood
amiability, good humor, good temper
humour, mood, temper, humor - a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"
jolliness, jollity, joviality - feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor
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He is less polished, less insinuating than Mainwaring, and is comparatively deficient in the power of saying those delightful things which put one in good humour with oneself and all the world.
Lady Susan by Austen, Jane View in context
Although muffled up in divers coats and handkerchiefs--one of which, passed over his crown, and tied in a convenient crease of his double chin, secured his three-cornered hat and bob-wig from blowing off his head--there was no disguising his plump and comfortable figure; neither did certain dirty finger-marks upon his face give it any other than an odd and comical expression, through which its natural good humour shone with undiminished lustre.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
They were all in high spirits and good humour, eager to be happy, and determined to submit to the greatest inconveniences and hardships rather than be otherwise.
Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane View in context
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