[lit-ideas] Pretty Irrisory
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:53:28 EDT
Thanks, Julie. I have not been able to check your reference, as you need to
know in what month and year the word was discussed. Here is from the OED
with just two quotes -- both from pre-Victorian times. I like that! And both
from the book that is possibly the central item in that beautiful film with
Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins, "Charring Cross Road" -- based on a play.
Cheers,
JL
irrisory:
[f. L. type **<Nsri-us, f. <NOsor, <NOsr-em: see prec. and -ory]
Having the character of deriding or mocking.
1824 LANDOR Imaginary Conversations Wks. 1846 I. xxxviii. 244/2,
I wish that, even there, you had been less irrisory, less of a pleader.
1829 Ibid. II. 146/1
The young men continued in their irrisory mood.
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