laetification

English

Etymology

laetificate +‎ -ion

Noun

laetification (uncountable)

1. An act or instance of laetificating.
   • 1937, James Joyce, edited by Eugène Jolas, Transition - Issues 26-27, page 52:

     To the laetification, of disgeneration by neuhumorisation of our kristianiasation.

   • 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:

     […] because he is such a barefooted rubber with my supersocks pulled over his face which I publicked in my bestback garden for the laetification of siderodromites.

   • 1949, Nicolas Slonimsky, Music Since 1900, page lix:

     30 October 1944 Victory Overture (patriotic laetification)

   • 1952, Aleksandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, My Life, page 4:

     Its musical language combines the elements of national lyricism, expressive narrative and exultant laetification, the qualities that are in correspondence with the epic subject of the opera.

   • 1963, James Joyce, edited by David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake:

     So whoop whousabout a plumpaside, poison kerls, for the laetification MS 47479, 22 of disgeneration and by euhumourisation neuhumourisation of § % FW 331 […]