Happyadjective
Etymology: from hap; as lucky for luck.
At other end Uran did Strephon lendHer happy making hand. Philip Sidney.
Am I happy in thy news?—— If to he done the thing you ge in chargeBeget you happiness, be happy then;For it is done. William Shakespeare, Richard III.
Truth and peace, and love, shall ever shineAbout the supreme throneOf him, t’ whose happy making sight alone,When once our he’nly guided soul shall climb. John Milton.
Though the presence of imaginary good cannot make us happy, the absence of it may make us miserable. Addison.
Chymists he been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them. Boyle.
Yet in this agony his fancy wrought,And fear supply’d him with this happy thought. Dryden.
One gentleman is happy at a reply, and another excels in a rejoinder. Jonathan Swift.