Definition of Humur
Humour, distinct from wit, and defined as "a warm, tender,
fellow-feeling with all that exists," as "the sport of sensibility and,
as it were, the playful, teasing fondness of a mother for a child" ... as
"a sort of inverse sublimity exalting into our affections what is below
us,... warm and all-embracing as the sun."
- Wikipedia
- something funny such as a joke, satire, parody, etc
- (archaic) Four "fluids" that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body - blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm.
M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40
: For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
- mood.
He was in a particularly vile humour that afternoon.
- either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
- to pacify by indulging.
I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.
French
- Comic effect in a communication or performance.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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