Laughter [ Communication ]
… to be laughed at is ‘extremely provoking’ (Hutcheson 31). 9 . Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (London: J & P. Knapton, 1755). 10 . Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (London: Andrew Crooke, 1651), p. 27. …
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