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Risibility

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Risibílity. n.s. [from risible.] The quality of laughing.

How comes lowness of stile to be so much the propriety of satyr, that without it a poet can be no more a satyrist, than without risibility he can be a man. Dryden.

Whatever the philosophers may talk of their risibility, neighing is a more noble expression than laughing. Arbuth.

Sources: Arbuthnot, John (227) · Dryden, John (788)

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