desipience

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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.

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  1. Silliness; trifling; nonsense. [Rare.] The desipience of such a man as John Locke is never out of place, and is as sweet to listen to now as it could have been to his thoughtful and affectionate self to indulge in. Dr. J. Brown, Spare Hours, 3d ser., Int., p. 37.

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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
  • _ -- "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
 

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  1. = Spanish desipiencia, from Latin desipientia, foolishness, from desipien(t-)s, foolish: see desipient.
 

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