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laetification

laetification noun: an act or instance of laetificating.

Noun

laetification (uncountable)

  1. An act or instance of laetificating.
    • To the laetification, of disgeneration by neuhumorisation of our kristianiasation.1937, James Joyce, edited by Eugène Jolas, Transition - Issues 26-27, page 52
    • […] 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.1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC

Examples of laetification in a sentence

  • 30 October 1944 Victory Overture (patriotic laetification)1949, Nicolas Slonimsky, Music Since 1900, page lix:
  • 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.1952, Aleksandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, My Life, page 4:
  • So whoop whousabout a plumpaside, poison kerls, for the laetification MS 47479, 22 of disgeneration and by euhumourisation neuhumourisation of § % FW 331 […]1963, James Joyce, edited by David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake:

Origin of laetification

From laetificate + -ion.

Questions about laetification

What does laetification mean?
Laetification means an act or instance of laetificating.
How do you use laetification in a sentence?
30 October 1944 Victory Overture (patriotic laetification)
What part of speech is laetification?
Laetification is a noun.

Words near laetification in the dictionary

  1. Laetare Sundays
  2. laetificate
  3. laetificated
  4. laetificates
  5. laetificating
  6. laetification
  7. Laetitia
  8. laetmogonid
  9. laetmogonids
  10. laetrile
  11. laetriles

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