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‖ joie de vivre|ʒwa də vivr|
[Fr., = joy of living.]
A feeling of healthy enjoyment of life; exuberance, high spirits.
1889E. Dowson Let. 1 Apr. (1967) 58, I do not suppose ‘la joie de vivre’ will be revealed to me any more at Limehouse than in the Temple. 1901‘L. Malet’ Hist. R. Calmady iii. v. 204 The hungry all-compelling joie de vivre which is begotten whensoever youth thus seeks and finds youth. 1907Westm. Gaz. 5 Feb. 4/2 The new joie de vivre of motoring. 1917S. McKenna Sonia vi. 263 It was only when the twanging banjos changed to rag-time that the majority of our neighbours sheepishly unbent and put forth an assumption of joie de vivre. 1925A. P. Herbert Laughing Ann 82 The simple mind and manly air, Not Brains so much as Breeding, With joie de vivre and savoir faire, Are constantly succeeding. 1935Discovery Jan. 28/2 Song is an outlet for any of a bird's emotions.., but chiefly joie de vivre. 1944Burlington Mag. Sept. 216/2 Many delightful travel impressions have also been noted by him in spirited pen and wash drawings, glistening with joie-de-vivre. 1955Times 16 Aug. 5/3 She is excitable, but rather in the sense of joie de vivre. Children play with her, ride on her back, twist her tail and do anything that might aggravate a ferocious dog. 1964R. Church Voyage Home i. 10 Suffering acutely from the effort to ignore the bursts of joie-de-vivre from the corridors. 1974I. Murdoch Sacred & Profane Love Machine 96 He had laughed at Sophie's spiteful jokes, of which the sheer joie de vivre had seemed to lessen the bite. |