| 单词 | holy laugh |
| 释义 | > as lemmasholy laugh holy laugh n. U.S. a laugh by a person in a state of religious fervour. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > laugh of religious fervour holy laugh1829 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [noun] > laugh holy laugh1829 1829 Western Monthly Rev. 2 477 Dr. Roberts is very pointed in his testimony against the abominable practice of jumping, pointing, dancing, boreing... Might he not have added the ‘holy laugh’? 1833 H. Barnard Let. 27 Mar. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1918) XIII. 328 The preacher in the midst of a fervent prayer, will all of a sudden burst out into a loud boisterous laugh... The most godly of his brethren join with him. This is called the ‘Holy Laugh’. 1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs x. 122 Near these last, stood a delicate woman in that hysterical condition in which the nerves are incontrollable, and which is vulgarly..termed the ‘holy laugh’. 1948 E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier 198 When it got started in an audience, everybody would be seized with hearty natural laughter. It would last for hours sometimes. This was known as the ‘holy laugh’. < as lemmas |
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