jocoseness
Example Sentences
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And, by the way," said the parson, stooping to Scotch in his ministerial jocoseness, "how's auld Tam, in whose class you were a prize-winner?
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
The sailors touched their hats to him with a strange mixture of veneration and jocoseness.
From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles
"I have been giving you the opinion of the higher court," he said, with his nearest approach to jocoseness.
From The Grafters by Lynde, Francis
In his world geniality, translated into jocoseness, was indispensable before, during, and after a wedding—even at these scarcely usual nuptials!
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)
To tell the truth, a part of his jocoseness was a blind; he was the greatest peace-maker, except Mr. Harmony in the play, that ever was born.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Reade, Charles
