Humour, distinct from wit, and defined as “a warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all that exists,” as “the sport of sensibility and, as it were, the playful, teasing fondness of a mother for a child” ... as “a sort of inverse sublimity exalting into our affections what is below us,... warm and all-embracing as the sun.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hume, Joseph * Hundred Days