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The Relationship Of “Cheer” And Face

The Relationship Of “Cheer” And Face

This trajectory of cheerfulness through the self is linked to the history of the word “cheer” itself. “Cheer” comes from an Old French word that means, simply, “face”. The term comes into English and spreads through medieval culture in the 14th century. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1387-1400), for example, people are depicted as having a “piteous cheer” or a “sober cheer”. “Cheer” is an expression, but also a body part. It lies at the intersection of our emotions and physiognomy.

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A cheery mood, we might think, is a terribly self-absorbed response to serious times. But history tells us otherwise.

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