mirth
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Old English myrġþ.
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mirth (plural mirths)
- The emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- That which causes merriment.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
- Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
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