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cachinnation

[ka-ki-nay-shuhn] / ˌkæ kɪˈneɪ ʃən /


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Every episode of Friends is accompanied by the cachinnation of the dead.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2012

A vast deal of cachinnation ensues at his various predicaments in escaping these women, Hell-bent for matrimony.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was not an infectious cachinnation, but still it was a laugh.

From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Richard Bird

The man, hardly able to refrain from indulging in a positive fit of stentorian cachinnation, without deigning any auricular explanation, pointed to the bank, on which Ferguson felt annoyed for not being permitted to reach.

From Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter by Colin Munro

The smile broadens to a grin, the grin becomes a cachinnation, then, as he hugs the fun, the cachinnation deepens to a roar of laughter, and the thing is complete.

From Faces and Places by Sir Henry W. (Henry William) Lucy

They generate guffaws and giggles and snorts and chortles and cachinnations, whatever they are, and provoke pee-in-the-pants incontinence.

From Washington Post ● May 20, 2021

The butler grinned from ear to ear, and broke into uncontrollable cachinnations in depositing his burden upon the floor.

From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland

I should, however, say in justice to our literary men, that they have not altogether succumbed to the demand for cachinnations.

From Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy

In passing, the cachinnations of the laughing hyena are rather a series of high-voiced self-conscious titters than laughter.

From African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White

She was under the influence of one of those extraordinary cachinnations that sometimes convulse our diaphragms, without our being able to tell why, and certainly without our being able to put a stop to them.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various




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