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alacrity
/əˈlækɹəti/
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What does alacrity mean?
noun
- Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.
- Promptness; speed.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈlækɹəti/
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And to their credit be it spoken, they never, I believe, obeyed his orders with more alacrity than on this occasion.
The city being thus united, the commons stood presently to their arms, and followed their commanders to the war with great alacrity.
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Felix gave a light laugh, and rejoined with the alacrity of a maritime adventurer who feels a puff of wind in his sail.
This personage had been exerting himself, with great alacrity, in driving all the flock of domestics to the other end of the verandah.
She hastens to the test tube whose contents are veiled under an opaque cover with the same alacrity as to the open tube.