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satiricalness|səˈtɪrɪkəlnɪs|
[f. satirical a. + -ness.]
The quality of being satirical.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Essex (1662) i. 334 Some Poets, if debarr'd profaness, wantoness, and Satyricalness, (that they may neither abuse God, themselves, nor their neighbours,) have their tongues cut out in effect. 1673O. Walker Educ. xi. 125 Wit is the mother of facetiousness, conceits, jests, raillery, satyricalness. 1683Kennet tr. Erasm. on Folly Pref. Ep. (1709) 8 To reply now to the objection of satyricalness, wits have been always allowed this priviledge. 1829Blackw. Mag. XXVI. 591 [He] had a smeddum of satiricalness. |