All 3 Uses
mirth
in
Wuthering Heights
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- Linton giggled: the first appearance of mirth he had exhibited.†
p. 160.3 *
- 'The fool stared, with a grin hovering about his lips, and a scowl gathering over his eyes, as if uncertain whether he might not join in my mirth: whether it were not pleasant familiarity, or what it really was, contempt.†
p. 181.4
- The pettishness that might be caressed into fondness, had yielded to a listless apathy; there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others as an insult.†
p. 190.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(mirth) fun and laughter
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)