Definition of Lachrymosity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lachrymosity

lachrymal gland
lachrymal secretion
lachrymals
lachrymary
lachrymate
lachrymation
lachrymations
lachrymator
lachrymatories
lachrymators
lachrymatory
lachrymiform
lachrymose
lachrymosely
lachrymosities
lachrymosity (current term)
lacier
laciest
lacily
laciness
lacinesses
lacing
lacings
lacinia
laciniae
laciniae tubae
laciniate
laciniate ligament
laciniated
laciniation

Literary usage of Lachrymosity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"They would have despised a life set wholly in a minor key, and summoned it to keep within the proper bounds of lachrymosity. The discovery that the enduring ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1854)
"She paused for Mrs. SLED'S mind to comprehend the whole force of the remark con • cerning IKE'S lachrymosity. "And he's the most considerable boy, ..."

3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature: A Study of by Joseph Texte (1899)
"... for the " vague lachrymosity " of Hervey, Ossian, and Rousseau. To Richardson must be accorded the most important place in the history of "melancholy. ..."

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