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Dec. 29, 2014
Word of the Day

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\murth\
noun
1. gaiety or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter: the excitement and mirth of the holiday season.
2. amusement or laughter: He was unable to conceal his mirth.
Quotes
Darcy was not of a disposition in which happiness overflows in mirth; and Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy than felt herself to be so; for, besides the immediate embarrassment, there were other evils before her.
-- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813
Origin
Mirth comes from the Old English myrgth and shares a root with the word merry.
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