"high spirits" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:",
          "text": "They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.",
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          "text": "Apart from yachting and the cross-Channel steamer it was her first experience of being at sea and she was in high spirits.",
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        "Joyous elation, joyfulness, joyousness."
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          "elation",
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          "joyfulness",
          "joyfulness"
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          "word": "high-spirited"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "joyfulness",
          "word": "hyvä mieliala"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "note": "hyvä tuuli (chiefly in adessive)",
          "sense": "joyfulness"
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          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "kéfi",
          "sense": "joyfulness",
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            "neuter"
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          "word": "κέφι"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "joyfulness",
          "word": "jókedv"
        },
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "joyfulness",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "mórtas"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "žívost",
          "sense": "joyfulness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "жи́вост"
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          "roman": "véselost",
          "sense": "joyfulness",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "ве́селост"
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          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "véselo raspoložénie",
          "sense": "joyfulness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "ве́село расположе́ние"
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          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "joyfulness",
          "word": "air ghleus"
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        {
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "note": "\"cheerful\", translating \"in high spirits\"",
          "sense": "joyfulness",
          "word": "gleusta"
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        "Joyous elation, joyfulness, joyousness."
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "joyfulness",
      "word": "hyvä mieliala"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "hyvä tuuli (chiefly in adessive)",
      "sense": "joyfulness"
    },
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kéfi",
      "sense": "joyfulness",
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      "word": "κέφι"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "joyfulness",
      "word": "jókedv"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "joyfulness",
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      "word": "mórtas"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "žívost",
      "sense": "joyfulness",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "жи́вост"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "véselost",
      "sense": "joyfulness",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ве́селост"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "véselo raspoložénie",
      "sense": "joyfulness",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ве́село расположе́ние"
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "joyfulness",
      "word": "air ghleus"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "note": "\"cheerful\", translating \"in high spirits\"",
      "sense": "joyfulness",
      "word": "gleusta"
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