Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Silliness; trifling; nonsense.
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- noun
silliness ,folly
Etymologies
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Latin desipientia, from desipere ‘to be foolish’.
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Examples
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_ -- "We can assure our readers who delight in mere joyous desipience that they will find a rich harvest of laughter in the purely irresponsible outpourings of Professor Leacock's fancy."
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels Stephen Leacock 1906
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The second book, published in 1871, shows Mr. Lear in the maturity of sweet desipience, and will perhaps remain the favorite volume of the four to grown-up readers.
Nonsense Books Edward Lear 1850
pavonine commented on the word desipience
foolishness,silliness
Fowles, The Magus
November 8, 2007