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humour

(US), humor
1. any of various fluids in the body, esp the aqueous humour and vitreous humour
2. Archaic any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, melancholy or black bile) formerly thought to determine emotional and physical disposition
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humour

amusement, laughter, and the like created by the paradoxical, ironic outcomes of social situations, language, and the portrayal of these in literature, art and the theatre. Although humour is a universal feature of human societies and a diverse literature exists (not least the work of Freud), the treatment of humour, has been only fragmentary within sociology, despite its importance in social life. See M. Mulkay, On Humour (1988).
Collins Dictionary of Sociology, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2000

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This work gathers letters written by humorist Rensselaer Reed Gilbert, a newspaper correspondent during the Civil War who described the experiences of soldiers and civilians in the Trans-Mississippi region.
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Director General National Language Promotion Department and acclaimed poet of the country Iftikhar Arif on Wednesday paid rich tributes to Pakistan's celebrated humorist Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi at a reference organized in his memory by the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL).
KARACHI -- Aligarh Muslim University Old Boys Association (AMUOBA) organized condolence reference for the renowned humorist Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi.
Mark Twain, American Humorist. University of Missouri Press, 2016.
In "Mark Twain: American Humorist" Wuster draws upon his own impressive writing skills and personal research to deftly examine the ways that Mark Twain's reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882.
The Telegram & Gazette feature "Then and Now'' on 941 Main St., Worcester referred to the former home of humorist Robert Benchley, his early life, graduation from Harvard, and work at Vanity Fair and the New Yorker.
If you believe Socrates's advice that the unexamined life is not worth living, you still have to decide what kind of eyes you will use when you look in the mirror--philosopher's, artist's, or humorist's?
Coverdale may be a "failed substitute Hawthorne" or a "travesty-Hawthorne," but I will argue that Hawthorne has constructed his unreliable narrator as a failed humorist of a particular sort, one whose humor is marked by the good-natured amiability of a proper gentleman who observes and sketches what he sees for the edification of the reader, as Washington Irving's narrator does in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
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