noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be filled with admiration/joy/happiness etc
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I was filled with admiration for her.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
future
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We are in control of our future and our happiness .
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Living together before you marry is no guarantee of future happiness .
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That is my point: you have cast aside the probability of future happiness on a whim.
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Suddenly her whole future happiness hinged on Maria Luisa's choice.
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When children overdo self-restraint, problems arise which can sometimes affect their future happiness .
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No, Harry, it's your future happiness that bothers me.
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We are soon, however, encouraged by society to look to the future for our happiness .
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And all for her threat of future happiness .
great
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Suddenly I was full of hope again, and I gave a great shout of happiness .
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Tilda cared nothing for the future, and had, as a result, a great capacity for happiness .
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Many adult children gain great happiness from caring for a much-loved parent in the closing years of their life.
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Frankly, she could survive in great happiness for a very long time without ever setting eyes on him again.
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Instead his hands were eagerly outstretched, and she moved towards him knowing that life could hold no greater happiness than this.
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The sum total of individual votes ought therefore to promote the utilitarian objective of the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
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Valerie, his second wife, brought him great happiness .
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It will be a great happiness to meet George MacDonald in eternity, if I get there as well.
human
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In this connection Hume propounds a kind of utilitarianism for which the good is essentially the useful, in terms of promoting human happiness .
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A society that values freedom, sexuality, and human happiness can hardly balk at this inspiring fulfillment of its ideal.
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Increasing human happiness ? another chancy one that.
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This is the guilt which plagues human happiness and interferes with the happiness of our sexuality.
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Why else this perpetual disappointment when she only wanted normal human happiness ?
personal
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Providing good housing Decent, affordable and safe housing is vital to personal happiness and family life.
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This is the reason that you have not had all of the personal success and happiness you desire.
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If she stays she is trapped in a marriage and lifestyle which offers scant prospect of achieving personal happiness .
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More seriously, our families are the index of our own personal and marital happiness .
true
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Will you grasp the courage to discover what true happiness is?
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But despite his hard work I thought he lacked true happiness and peace of mind.
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This will help us not to confuse physical pleasure with true happiness or the spiritual reality of joy.
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Marje found the love she so desperately needed, and true happiness , in the arms of Levy.
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This is why the search for true happiness will inevitably start to expose the shallowness of our lives.
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The first beatitude shocks us with this blunt realization that true happiness is reserved for children and the poor.
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The by-product of suffering brought true happiness .
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Truly then, the Beatitudes test the personal integrity of our lives and of our interpretation of true happiness .
■ VERB
bring
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His money had not brought happiness and perhaps it had contributed to his strange sense of values.
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If we were sad, a new day would bring us happiness .
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Ask each other what one manageable action you can perform which will bring the other happiness .
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You have brought happiness to a house where it has never really been before.
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Grandmother I am sure your grandmother would have wanted you to spend it on something that would bring you happiness .
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But don't be hoodwinked into thinking that gifts and other offerings are the way to bring lasting happiness .
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This will automatically bring more happiness , contentment and peace into our lives.
feel
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Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness .
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Casaubon can not feel the happiness he expected from his engagement but will not admit to himself his endemic loneliness.
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We all of us feel your happiness and we have come to celebrate it with you, and with your families.
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Miguel laughed, feeling a strange happiness .
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And I felt full of happiness .
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In that instant, Juliet felt a surge of happiness that filled her chest and almost engulfed her.
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I felt as if our happiness depended upon it.
fill
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She was filled with happiness , driving to Trelorne.
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More than that-it fills me with happiness that you were able, for your own sake, to speak to me so.
find
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Durham was the place where he had found happiness .
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Will Gary and Gale find happiness together at last?
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She had found her island of happiness and would never swim away from it.
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They hold hands, they tell each other their stories, they find happiness again.
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But she had found a deal of happiness in her family.
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Frankenstein would not give me a wife, but he hoped to find happiness with a wife of his own.
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And yet Charles Henstock had found a great deal of happiness in later life since his marriage to Dimity.
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In that giving she found completion and happiness beyond all expectation.
glow
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Her face seems to glow with happiness as if a vision has of a sudden become reality.
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Every bride looks beautiful - this is partly because of what she is wearing and partly because she is usually glowing with happiness .
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She didn't need a mirror to know her face was glowing with happiness .
wish
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Because I would like you to join me in wishing every happiness to Annabelle and Steven.
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I shall put this in with your Christmas card, so here's wishing you every happiness at Christmas.
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We wish Ann every happiness in her new home.
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Sheena and Howard have since moved to Somerset and we wish them every happiness in their new home.
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And may I wish you much happiness , Mrs Hendry.
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She was surprised when Joe smiled at her and wished them both happiness .
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Mark Phillips's father, Major Peter Phillips, wished the couple happiness yesterday.
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The girls sincerely loved Tess and wished for her happiness .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a glow of pleasure/satisfaction/happiness etc
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Harry felt a glow of pleasure - not least because his darling Alice was making such an obvious success of her career.
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He looked fantastic and had actually acquired quite a suntan - or was it just a glow of happiness?
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Shamlou experienced a glow of satisfaction.
sheer luck/happiness/stupidity etc
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By sheer luck I had given Reuters their biggest news scoop since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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He made it through sheer luck and by attaching himself to one guy after another and then stepping over them.
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She flung out her hands and caught the edge of the stone by sheer luck.
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So I guessed right; sheer luck.
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Would anybody see if I just nudged them over the edge for their sheer stupidity?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Happiness is more important than money.
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I doubt she'll find happiness with Gary.
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Money is not the key to happiness .
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Pauline was willing to do anything for her children's happiness .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Frankly, she could survive in great happiness for a very long time without ever setting eyes on him again.
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I began to realize that there was no happiness for me in life.
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It makes me very happy but it's a frightening kind of happiness .
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On the lower deck, where all the people are, there is the sense of an outrageous and clarifying happiness .
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The suffering of the present ... is unlikely to be redeemed by a future of universal happiness .
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There was only one small patch of disappointment in his vista of happiness .