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n. - Lively high-spirited playfulness.

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  • Let him, in a word, be a Merry Andrew, -- the patron and promoter of frolicsomeness.
  • At such seasons, and they were very frequent, he took great pleasure in making me the victim of his frolicsomeness.
  • These were the gambolings of the spirit like the frolicsomeness of an animal in the full flush of its vitality or like the blooming of a plant.
  • While she was dancing she held the attention of all; everybody's eyes followed her sinuous movements, now indicative of glowing passion, now of frolicsomeness.
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