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Definition of Agelasts
1. agelast [n] - See also: agelast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agelasts
Literary usage of Agelasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by Charles Larcom Graves (1922)
"... would have called agelasts or non-laughers." A brilliant American essayist,
Miss Agnes Repplier, has recently remarked that the Twentieth Century does ..."
2. The Charles Mills Gayley Anniversary Papers: Contributed by Former Students by Benjamin Putnam Kurtz, Charles Mills Gayley (1922)
"... men whom Rabelais would call agelasts; that is to say, non-laughers; men who
are in that respect as dead bodies, which if you prick them do not bleed. ..."
3. Essays in Dramatic Criticism by Louis Dupont Syle (1898)
"First, the Puritans or agelasts, who will laugh at nothing and who never go to
the theatre ; second, ..."
4. The Chinese Students' Monthly by Chinese Students Alliance (1922)
"... throw the English into the category of "agelasts" or non-laughing animals and
would also by implication deny the existence ol any comedy in English. ..."
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