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Definition of Ludicrousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ludicrousness
Literary usage of Ludicrousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. God Against Slavery: And the Freedom and Duty of the Pulpit to Rebuke It, as by George Barrell Cheever (1857)
"... OPPRESSION — NO SUCH THING AS SLAVERY AMONG THE HEBREWS— ludicrousness OF THE
CLAIM OF AFRICANS AS OUR PROPERTY BY REASON OF NOAH'S CURSE ON CANAAN. ..."
2. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown, David Welsh (1860)
"Another set of examples, in which the consideration of the mind of the speaker
forms an essential part of the ludicrousness, are those which are commonly ..."
3. Elements of Mental Philosophy by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1847)
"Hence we infer that emotions of ludicrousness do not exist on the discovery ...
Further, if the doctrine which resolves the emotions of ludicrousness into a ..."
4. Elements of Mental Philosophy, Embracing the Two Departments of the by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1856)
"Hence we infer that emotions of ludicrousness do not exist on the discovery ...
Further, if the doctrine which resolves the emotions of ludicrousness into a ..."
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