Unlachrymose
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Not lachrymose.; Free from dejection and melancholy; not vexed or weighed down by circumstances. not-comparable
"The only articulate sounds that could be distinguished, were the impatient exclamations of hungry soldiers, clamouring for their schnapps and suppers, and throwing the toiling sutlers into a frenzy of bewilderment. The spectacle, too, was of an equally joyous and unlachrymose description."
- 2 Not lachrymose.; Tearless; not given to crying. not-comparable
"When the devil was going out of the possessed person, he was supposed to do so with reluctance: “The spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.” (St. Mark, ix. 26.) The tears and struggles of the infant would therefore be a convincing proof that the Evil One had departed. In Ireland (as every clergyman knows) nurses will decide the matter by pinching the baby, rather than allow him to remain silent and unlachrymose."
- 3 Not lachrymose.; Unsentimental.; Unamenable to appeals of emotion. not-comparable
"But the really dangerous people would be the servants, la valetaille et la piétaille, the cold-eyed, unimpressionable, unlachrymose, and, when encountered in a corridor, insolent observers of Rousseau’s magisterial performances."
- 4 Not lachrymose.; Unsentimental.; Not schmaltzy; expressed without gratuitous sorrow. not-comparable
"His films with Temple are surprisingly light and unlachrymose."
- 5 Not lachrymose.; Unmournful; free from lamentation. not-comparable
"I conclude that the kaddish, in Rashi’s day, played only its traditional role, in and out of the context of mourning. It was still a liturgical corollary to a pedagogical activity. Indeed, in Rashi’s reading, the liturgy of mourning that the kaddish accompanied was itself not construed as an expression of mourning, even if it was expressed by mourners. “Neither a lament nor a dirge”: this seems odd. In this unlachrymose interpretation of the prayer of justification, Rashi seems to have divorced language from reality. Of course these words are a lament and a dirge! Just see where they are said."
Example
More examples"The only articulate sounds that could be distinguished, were the impatient exclamations of hungry soldiers, clamouring for their schnapps and suppers, and throwing the toiling sutlers into a frenzy of bewilderment. The spectacle, too, was of an equally joyous and unlachrymose description."
Etymology
From un- + lachrymose.
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