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cachinnation
/ ˌkækɪˈneɪʃən /
noun
- raucous laughter
- psychiatry inappropriate laughter, sometimes found in schizophrenia
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Then, upon a given signal, they threw their arms around the orphan and hugged him, while a violent cachinnation was heard.
It was quite tame and fearless, and used to make a loud chattering cachinnation.
The stoker laughed truculently, and Billy ventured upon a faint echo of the jeering cachinnation.
She is possessed with a laughing demon, and has been in a constant state of cachinnation the whole trip.
And Miss Jerusha indulged in a regular cachinnation for the first time that Richmond ever remembered to hear her.
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