lacrimosity

plural lacrimosities

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of lachrymosity.

   It is thus — after countless cycles of gods and cloned encodings, of lost forest and foundry, of bombs and lacrimosity — that there re-emerges…in the thin stale coincidence of time…a duplicate string of peasant farm implements.

   2013, Michael Mirolla, “Machine time”, in George Payerle, editor, The House on 14th Avenue, Winnipeg, Man.: Signature Editions, →ISBN, page 56

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   The King, with his constant attendant, Count Hollenstein, watched from the Galerie des Glaces the watery tournament on the great terrace between tritons, naïads, dragons, and the genii of the French rivers and the queer lacrimosities of the toads and turtles of Latona’s fountain.

   1874 August 25, correspondent, “The King of Bavaria”, in The Daily News, number 8,842, London: William King Hales, published 27 August 1874, →OCLC, page 3, column 4

   Brill could lead a day of weeping in which people meditated on threatened species, dying pandas, starving koalas, bludgeoned seal pups and similar mammalian tearjerkers while catching their lacrimosities in little plastic vals which they would then drop off at collection points in shopping malls, post offices, etc.

   2006, James Hamilton-Paterson, chapter 20, in Amazing Disgrace, New York, N.Y.: Europa Editions, →ISBN, page 268