"agelast" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2005, Arkady Kovelman, Between Alexandria and Jerusalem: The Dynamic of Jewish and Hellenistic Culture, Koninklijke Brill, page 50:",
          "text": "As a real agelast in a comedy, he is beaten. The beating of an agelast is the most important point of the comedy.",
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          "ref": "2008, Charles Partee, The Theology of John Calvin, Westminster John Knox Press, page 10:",
          "text": "Declaring with Doumergue that \"Rabelais and Calvin (and Olivétan) were the creators of French literary prose,\"²⁵ Bakhtin adds \"Even the agelast Calvin wrote a pamphlet about relics with a certain comic overtone.\"²⁶ The single, and unusual word \"agelast\" summarizes the popular view of John Calvin: a person who does not laugh or smile; someone who cannot enjoy life or the fact that others might be happy.",
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          "text": "For Kundera, agelasts represent the opposite of the spirit of the novel; the novel is born from the sense of humor and not from theoretical thinking.",
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          "text": "Agelasts have a very clear idea that they have patent regarding both the truth and the mission and are so bloody solemn that they just cannot accept other views.",
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        "(rare) One who never laughs (especially at jokes); a mirthless person."
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          "word": "agelastic"
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