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Such emotional superlatives merely create in the reader a cachinnatory revulsion.

From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Blancké, Wilton Wallace

The laughing jackasses laughed their loudest, almost frightening her with their weird cachinnatory chorus; and the laughing hyæna screamed his sepulchral ha-ha-ha's so that he was heard all the way to Primrose Hill.

From Fan : the story of a young girl's life by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

Captain Morrill urbanely apologized to Mr. Glover, and engaged himself to make it right in the morning; whereupon Mr. Glover withdrew in cachinnatory convulsions.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

But this last title was very rarely indulged in, because it once sent his particular crony, a chuckle-headed clerk in the post-office, into a cachinnatory fit which was "rayther in the apoplectic line."

From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Durivage, Francis A. (Francis Alexander)

And after she had concluded her cachinnatory outburst, she coolly told me she would rather have 'MICHAEL.'

From Peg O' My Heart by Manners, J. Hartley