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cachinnation

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12 lettersPronunciation /kækɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/Part of speech nounSorted aacchiinnnotStarts with CEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. loud convulsive laughter

Word origin

From cachinnate + -ion.

Used in a sentence

  • While reforming the language I crave leave to introduce an improvement of punctuation—the snigger point, or note of cachinnation. It is written thus ‿ and represents, as early as may be, a smiling mouth.
  • His shrill, mirthless cachinnation followed Monica as she headed up-hill.
  • After midnight their shrill notes burst into a kind of pandemoniac cachinnation which filled all the countryside, and not until dawn did they finally quiet down.

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