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Definition of Risibility
1. Noun. A disposition to laugh.
Definition of Risibility
1. n. The quality of being risible; as, risibility is peculiar to the human species.
Definition of Risibility
1. Noun. The property of being risible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Risibility
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Risibility
Literary usage of Risibility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Historical Sketch of the Art of Caricaturing by James Peller Malcolm (1813)
"The Quaker child, habited in the fashion of his sect, sat with the gravity of a
preacher; he smiled only when the conversation excited risibility, and, ..."
2. Postal Salaries: Hearings, Sixty-sixth Congress, First [second] Session by United States, Congress, Joint Commission on Postal Salaries (1920)
"... and the man without sufficient brawn and brain should not be accepted, because
he is an added re<p ¡risibility to the men with whom he is assigned. ..."
3. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"power of Un-hter ; risibility. RISQUE, ». m. risk ; danger. Courir risque de —,
to run the risk of—to stand the chance of—. .1 tout nV ..."
4. Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington by James Lackington (1830)
"And think, that risibility was giv'n For human happiness, by gracious heav'n,
Careto our coffin adds a nail no doubt. And ev'ry grin, so merry, ..."
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