Irony

a.	1.	Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles; - In this sense iron is the more common term.
	2.	Resembling iron in taste, hardness, or other physical property.
n.	1.
	1.	Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
	2.	A sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words.

Noun	1.	irony - witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Johathan Swift Synonyms: caustic remark, sarcasm, satire
	2.	irony - incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
	3.	irony - a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

IRONY, rhetoric. A term derived from the Greek, which signifies dissimulation. It is a refined species of ridicule, which, under the mask of honest simplicity or ignorance, exposes the faults and errors of others, by seeming to adopt or defend them.
     2. In libels, irony may convey imputations more effectually than direct assertion, and render the publication libelous. Hob. 215; Hawk. B. 1, c. 73, s. 4; 3 Chit. Cr. Law, 869, Bac. Ab. Libel, A 3.

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