单词 | tragicomicality |
释义 | tragicomicalityn. rare. Tragicomic quality; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical > combination of comical and tragic tragico-comedy1603 tragicomedy1603 tragicomicality1830 tragi-farce1893 1830 R. Barton tr. C. Blasis Code of Terpsichore (ed. 2) v. 278 Tunder..approaches Hermann, and taking his hand, shakes it most violently, in order to arouse his attention, while endeavouring to affright him by the tragi-comicality of his anger. 1897 Q. Rev. Jan. 182 His butterfly tragicomicalities of romance. 1998 J. Bryant in S. Levine Cambr. Compan. Herman Melville (1999) iii. 70 The dramatization of interior life in Ishmael and Ahab, even the novel's tragicomicality—all prefigure the literary sensibilities of James, Joyce, and Faulkner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1830 |
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