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Definition of Seriocomical
1. Adjective. Mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating. "A seriocomic novel"
Definition of Seriocomical
1. Adjective. seriocomic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seriocomical
Literary usage of Seriocomical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern Literary Messenger (1838)
"... the happiest specimen of the seriocomical or Pulci verse in the English
language, if we except the Rape of the Lock, which, however, is rather a poem of ..."
2. London Lyrics by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1876)
"OLD ADAGE, WE liked the bear's seriocomical face, As he loll'd with a lazy, a
lumbering grace ; Said Slyboots to me (just as if she had none), " Papa, ..."
3. The London Catalogue of Books, with Their Sizes, Prices, and Publishers ...by Bob Bent, Robert Bent by Bob Bent, Robert Bent (1827)
"... to a Nobleman on Catholic Emancipation, 8vo Letters, seriocomical and Ironical,
on Education, 8vo by Eminent Persons in 17th and 18th Centuries, 3 v. ..."
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