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Satire

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(1):

(a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.

(2):

(a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Satire'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/satire.html. 1828.
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