RIDENT

also RYDENT

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ETYMOLOGY
from Latin rīdent-, rīdens, pres. pple. of rīdēre to laugh

EXAMPLE
From: The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
The Newcomes
Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Volume I, 1868
Chapter XXIV. In which the Newcome brothers once more meet together in unity.
P. 284