"lack-laughter" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "lack + laughter",
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      "form": "more lack-laughter",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1771, John Horne, The Controversial Letters of John Wilkes, Esq., the Rev. John Horne, and Their Principal Adherents, page 153",
          "text": "The lack-laughter sangfroid of the parſon was the conſtant topic of his ridicule, and he complained that whenever I appeared I caſt a gloom over the mirth of his company.",
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        {
          "ref": "1850, “Agamemnon”, in Blackie, John Stuart, transl., The Lyrical Dramas of Æschylus, volume 1, translation of original by Aeschylus, page 48",
          "text": "[…] many force / Lack-laughter faces to relax / Into the soft lines traced by joy.",
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        "Cheerless; sombre; serious."
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          "Cheerless",
          "cheerless"
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        "(obsolete) Cheerless; sombre; serious."
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          "word": "cheerless"
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        {
          "word": "serious"
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  "word": "lack-laughter"
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  "etymology_text": "lack + laughter",
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