spirited
adjective
having or showing mettle, courage, vigor, liveliness, etc..
spiritedness
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a word derived from
spirited.
Example Sentences
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Christie might find an outlet for his spiritedness in the Republicans’ 2024 presidential competition.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
Out of public spiritedness — and a desire to reduce tax bills — collectors from an older generation have tended to keep their masterpieces away from the auctioneer’s gavel.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2019
Swayze's tenacious, competitive nature and his zen-like good spiritedness were never more in force than near the end of his life.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2019
Before adjourning for sentencing, Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC told jurors he would be highlighting the "public spiritedness" of the people who rushed in to help on the day of the attack.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2016
Nothing has done more, if the Covenants be excepted, to give the Covenanted Church decision, stability, permanence, spiritedness, and undecaying strength, than the superlative formulas of truth produced by this illustrious Assembly.
From Sketches of the Covenanters by J. C. McFeeters
