Pertness: alternatives and connections

Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.

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The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that s…

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The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravit…

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Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

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The quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity.

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Open; evident; apert.

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Open; evident; apert.

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The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness.

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The condition or quality of being impertnent; absence of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.

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The quality or state of being saucy; that which is saucy; impertinent boldness; contempt of superiors; impudence.

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