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alacrity - noun

A state of cheerful willingness, readiness, or promptness; liveliness or briskness, as in He accepted the promotion with alacrity.

I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

—William Shakespeare Richard III (1591)

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