laetification
English
Etymology
laetificate + -ion
Noun
laetification (uncountable)
- An act or instance of laetificating.
- 1937, James Joyce, Eugène Jolas, editor, Transition - Issues 26-27, page 52:
- To the laetification, of disgeneration by neuhumorisation of our kristianiasation.
- 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, OCLC 715577589; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, OCLC 867955333:
- […] because he is such a barefooted rubber with my supersocks pulled over his face which I publicked in my bestback garden for the laetification of siderodromites.
- 1949, Nicolas Slonimsky, Music Since 1900, page lix:
- 30 October 1944 Victory Overture (patriotic laetification)
- 1952, Aleksandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, My Life, page 4:
- Its musical language combines the elements of national lyricism, expressive narrative and exultant laetification, the qualities that are in correspondence with the epic subject of the opera.
- 1963, James Joyce, David Hayman (ed.), A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake
- So whoop whousabout a plumpaside, poison kerls, for the laetification MS 47479, 22 of disgeneration and by euhumourisation neuhumourisation of § % FW 331 […]
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