[f. LUDICROUS: see -OSITY.] Ludicrousness.

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1837.  Berrow’s Worcester Jrnl., 16 Nov., 2/1. The cart drivers had not gone far when ‘our friend’ in the sack evinced his ideas of the ludicrosity of his situation by an explosion of laughter.

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1842.  Leicestershire Mercury, 8 Jan., 4/2. PUNCH, or the LONDON CHARIVARI, Jan., appears in the form of an almanac, each page for a month, grotesquely illustrated with innumerable figures, and filled with puns and ludicrosities.

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a. 1856.  H. Miller, Cruise Betsey (1858), 399. Unintentional ludicrosities.

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1856.  J. Brown, Lett., in Life Cairns, xv. (1895), 422. There is a sort of sublime ludicrosity about it.

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