laetification

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English

Etymology

From laetificate +‎ -ion.

Noun

laetification (uncountable)

  1. An act or instance of laetificating.
    • 1937, James Joyce, edited by Eugène Jolas, Transition - Issues 26-27, page 52:
      To the laetification, of disgeneration by neuhumorisation of our kristianiasation.
    • 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:
      [] because he is such a barefooted rubber with my supersocks pulled over his face which I publicked in my bestback garden for the laetification of siderodromites.
    • 1949, Nicolas Slonimsky, Music Since 1900, page lix:
      30 October 1944 Victory Overture (patriotic laetification)
    • 1952, Aleksandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, My Life, page 4:
      Its musical language combines the elements of national lyricism, expressive narrative and exultant laetification, the qualities that are in correspondence with the epic subject of the opera.
    • 1963, James Joyce, edited by David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake:
      So whoop whousabout a plumpaside, poison kerls, for the laetification MS 47479, 22 of disgeneration and by euhumourisation neuhumourisation of § % FW 331 []