Meanings
- uncountableAn act or instance of laetificating.
30 October 1944 Victory Overture (patriotic laetification)
1949, Nicolas Slonimsky, Music Since 1900, page lix4 more examples
To the laetification, of disgeneration by neuhumorisation of our kristianiasation.
1937, James Joyce, edited by Eugène Jolas, Transition - Issues 26-27, page 52[…] 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.
1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLCIts 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.
1952, Aleksandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, My Life, page 4So whoop whousabout a plumpaside, poison kerls, for the laetification MS 47479, 22 of disgeneration and by euhumourisation neuhumourisation of § % FW 331 […]
1963, James Joyce, edited by David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake
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