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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Riant

· Ri·ant · IPA
01 a. Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape.
  1. 1.
    Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape.
    “In such cases the sublimity must be drawn from the other sources, with a strict caution, howewer, against anything light and riant.” Burke.