The emotion usually following humor and accompanied by laughter.
But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
That which causes merriment.
Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.
From Middle English merth, myrthe, murhthe, from Old English myrġþ (“mirth, joy”), from Proto-West Germanic *murgiþu (“briefness, brevity”); equivalent to merry + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognat...
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