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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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