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