Happiness
Happiness , noun
[From Happy.]
1.
Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!
2.
An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended with enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.
3.
Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language.
Some beauties yet no precepts can declare,
For there's a happiness, as well as care.
O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Others in virtue place felicity,
But virtue joined with riches and long life;
In corporal pleasures he, and careless ease.
His overthrow heaped happiness upon him;
For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
And found the blessedness of being little.