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Grammar : Noun
Spell : kak-uh-neyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæk əˌneɪt



Définition of cachinnation

Origin :
  • "loud laughter," 1620s, from Latin cachinnationem (nominative cachinnatio) "violent laughter, excessive laughter," noun of action from past participle stem of cachinnare "to laugh immoderately or loudly," of imitative origin. Cf. Sanskrit kakhati "laughs," Greek kakhazein "to laugh loudly," Old High German kachazzen, English cackle, Armenian xaxanc'.
  • noun laugh
Example sentences :
  • Chip's nervous system did not demand the relief of cachinnation.
  • Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
  • And there it swung to and fro, moved by the violence of its cachinnation.
  • Extract from : « Vikram and the Vampire » by Richard F. Burton
  • Then, look at the baby, when it has turned into a little boy or girl, and come up in some degree to the cachinnation.
  • Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVI, July 1852, Vol. V » by Various
  • Why, one might as well talk of a laughing death's-head,—the cachinnation of a monk's memento mori.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Never did a General and his Chief-of-Staff, in a more unseemly state of cachinnation, ride along a picket-line.
  • Extract from : « The Black Phalanx » by Joseph T. Wilson
  • The former was accompanied by a running fire of cachinnation from the delighted audience.
  • Extract from : « Ellen Terry and Her Sisters » by T. Edgar Pemberton
  • Then right under me commenced a vehement rasping and scratching in the floor, accompanied by continuous groans and cachinnation.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Elixir » by E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • She is possessed with a laughing demon, and has been in a constant state of cachinnation the whole trip.
  • Extract from : « The houseboat book » by William F. Waugh
  • Then, look at the baby when it has turned into a little boy or girl, and come up in some degree to the cachinnation.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 » by Various

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