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Mirth

//mɜɹθ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The emotion usually following humor and accompanied by laughter. uncountable, usually

    "But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness."

  2. 2
    great merriment wordnet
  3. 3
    That which causes merriment. uncountable, usually

    "Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed."

Etymology

From Middle English merth, myrthe, murhthe, from Old English myrġþ (“mirth, joy”), from Proto-West Germanic *murgiþu (“briefness, brevity”); equivalent to merry + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch merchte (“pleasure, joy, delight”).

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