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cachinnation

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noun

rare

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‘Even someone remarking in polite company about somebody who ‘had one of the longest beards I've ever seen’ is given a suggestive pause after longest, eliciting obscene cachinnations from the groundlings.’

‘‘Come now, be serious little boy,’ Christy simpered to me, slightly breathless after her cachinnation.’
‘That at the ripe old age of a quarter-century the play still crackles with cachinnation (note the k's!) is a hopeful sign.’
‘The eldest of the trio, a paunched and jowled dignitary whose beard and hair were obviously touched up in a none-too-successful effort to belie his more than three score years, glared in distaste at the scene of action unfolding while the cachinnations of the general audience grew in volume.’
‘Instead, however, of their laughter lessening, the cachinnations became so violent that I began to feel seriously alarmed.’