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Cachinnation

noun
1.
Loud convulsive laughter.





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"Cachinnation" Quotes from Famous Books



... the flashes of his humour and the flights of the meteors, that in each case one looked for jokes or meteors, but they always came just in the place that one least expected to find them. Half the enjoyment of the evening lay, to some of those present, in listening to the hearty cachinnation of the people who only found out the jokes some two or three minutes after they were made, and who then laughed apparently at some grave statements of fact. Reduced to paper, the showman's jokes are certainly not brilliant; almost ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1 • Charles Farrar Browne
... of King Solomon downwards, laughter has been the subject of pretty general abuse. Even the laughers themselves sometimes vituperate the cachinnation they indulge ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 - Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852 • Various
... Billy ventured upon a faint echo of the jeering cachinnation. The grin died from the boy's face, however, as the engineer promptly relieved a dawning sense of injury by cuffing him upon one side of the head, while the stoker wrung the ...
— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various


Words linked to "Cachinnation" :   laughter, laugh, cachinnate


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