Adjective

(en adjective)

* {{quote-book, year=1581, author=Anonymous, title=A Treatise Of Daunses, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Some others goe further and alledging or rather indeede abusing some peece of the Scripture, where it appeareth that the faithfull haue leaped and daunsed: they thinke verily that they haue founde the beane in the cake, as though this were a proper couerture & cloke to couer the infection and filthines of their daunces. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=Massacre at Paris, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=NAVARRE. It is enough if that Navarre may be Esteemed faithfull to the King of France: Whose service he may still commaund to death. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1650, author=John Dury, title=The Reformed Librarie-Keeper, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Thy faithfull and unwearied servant SAMUEL HARTLIB. }}

Adjective

(en adjective)

Noticeably happy and optimistic.

Bright and pleasant.

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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.