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English
Etymology
lack + laughter
Adjective
lack-laughter (comparative more lack-laughter, superlative most lack-laughter)
- (obsolete) Cheerless; sombre; serious.
1771, John Horne, The Controversial Letters of John Wilkes, Esq., the Rev. John Horne, and Their Principal Adherents, page 153:The lack-laughter sangfroid of the parſon was the conſtant topic of his ridicule, and he complained that whenever I appeared I caſt a gloom over the mirth of his company.
1850, “Agamemnon”, in Blackie, John Stuart, transl., The Lyrical Dramas of Æschylus, volume 1, translation of original by Aeschylus, page 48:[…] many force / Lack-laughter faces to relax / Into the soft lines traced by joy.
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