Citations:epicaricacy

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English citations of epicaricacy

2007, Dickie, A homo at the trainstation thread for Connor, rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

Yo, Doktor Schadenfreud! Your epicene epicaricacy is peeking out from under your leiderschaftslos lederhosen...
2007, Some Guy, First Edition Player's Handbook, rec.games.frp.dnd

Produce for me a torrent of lachymosity; your scrannel epicaricacy and mordant xerosis render you in sore need of diluvial refreshment.
2007 — Elias Khalil, The Mirror-Neuron Paradox: How Far is Sympathy from Compassion, Indulgence, and Adulation?,

Spite or malevolence is probably a more complex form of "schadenfreude" (from German) or "epicaricacy" (from Greek).

2008: Robert Augustus Masters, The Crucible of Awakening, Issue №42 (October 2008), §: “Schadenfreude Exposed”, page 2

There’s an emotion, a very common emotion, for which there’s no word in English (other than perhaps the extremely obscure and pronunciation-hobbled epicaricacy), an emotion that is all about taking pleasure in others’ misfortune or suffering.

2004, Paolo Tullio, Kevin O'Neill's,

Epicaricacy may not be the noblest of emotions, but at times like these it's hard not to succumb.

2008, rittinger, The End of the Affair: The Democrat Party’s Humiliating Walk of Shame,

I must confess, as a devotee of schadenfreude I am deriving more pleasure from the Democrat Party primary process than is typically legal in most jurisdictions–save Nevada. And in the wake of the Pennsylvania Primary, I am experiencing such an intense feeling of epicaricacy that even being subjected to a 24 hour marathon of Countdown with Keith Olbermann couldn’t wipe the smile off my face.

1955, Peter Novobatzky, Depraved and Insulting English,

The residents of quiet, tree-lined Bowker Street were a peaceful lot as a rule, but their feathers got a bit ruffled when the local ice cream truck man refused to lower the volume of the horrid wheedling music his vehicle constantly emanated. And so when the deranged war veteran from the next block destroyed the truck with a bazooka one fine spring morning, they all felt the warm glow of epicaricacy spreading through their veins.

1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy,

Out of these two arise those mixed affections and passions of anger, which is a desire of revenge; hatred, which is inveterate anger; zeal, which is offended with him who hurts that he loves; and ἐπιχαιρεκακία [epikhairekakia], a compound affection of joy and hate, when we rejoice at other men's mischief, and are grieved at their prosperity; pride, self-love, emulation, envy, shame, &c., of which elsewhere.
1933, C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress,

'Our father was married twice,' continued Humanist. 'Once to a lady named Epichaerecacia, and afterwords to Euphuia..."
2005, Victoria Pedrick, Steven M. Oberhelman, Literary Criticism,

... where Aristotle exploits the threefold classification of virtues and emotions according to excess, mean, and deficiency, he uses the term epikhairekakia ...