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- verb British Alternative spelling of
humorize .
Etymologies
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humor + -ise
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Examples
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He showed how it could be made, not merely to present humorous situations, but to exhibit a special kind of humour itself -- to make the writer as it were the hero without his ever appearing as character in _Tristram_, or to humorise autobiography as in the _Sentimental Journey_.
The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889
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