humor
noun
a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement.
had humored
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past perfectof humor.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Cardinals had sought his blessing, popes had humored his whims and solicited his advice.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this, at least, they had humored me.
From Mavis of Green Hill by Faith Baldwin
They had humored him, and for three long hours he had knelt by her, bidding her a sorrowful farewell, taking his last look at the face that would never again smile on earth for him.
From Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame
I well remember a case where the mother's favorite son brought sorrow and shame to the entire household by stealing from his own father, simply because she had humored and petted him in childhood.
From The value of a praying mother by Isabel C. (Isabel Coston) Byrum
But since her arrival Gracie had studiously avoided any reference to her stepmother, and Mrs. Roberts had humored her folly.
From Ester Ried Yet Speaking by Pansy
