"parergy" meaning in English

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          "text": "Wherefore the Scriptures being serious, and commonly omitting such parergies, it will be unreasonable from hence to condemn all laughter",
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        "Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous; a trifle"
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      "ipa": "/ˈpæɹə(ɹ)d͡ʒi/"
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