Vivaciousness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vivacious \Vi*va"cious\ (?; 277), a. [L. v['i]vax, -acis, fr.
     vivere to live. See {Vivid}.]
     1. Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life;
        long-lived. [Obs.]
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              Hitherto the English bishops have been vivacious
              almost to wonder. . . . But five died for the first
              twenty years of her [Queen Elizabeth's] reign.
                                                    --Fuller.
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              The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than
              any mere ravishment of the imagination can ever be.
                                                    --I. Taylor.
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     2. Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a
        vivacious poet. "Vivacious nonsense." --V. Knox.
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     3. (Bot.) Living through the winter, or from year to year;
        perennial. [R.]
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     Syn: Sprightly; active; animated; sportive; gay; merry;
          jocund; light-hearted.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Vi*va"cious*ly}, adv. --
          {Vi*va"cious*ness}, n.
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