jocundity
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It was all endured easily enough, and now and then there were outbursts of rollicking jocundity in spite of it The mere physical suffering of privation is not a thousandth part of its pain.
From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by David Christie Murray
Cecil had been taking time by the forelock in anticipation of Shaw's descent in the morning and was inclined to jocundity.
From Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
Ornament—strange as the doctrine sounds in a world decivilised—was in the beginning intended to be something jocund; and jocundity was never to be achieved but by postponement, deference, and modesty.
From The Rhythm of Life by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
Fanny, who had ever forced herself to the diffusion of merriment when there was cheerlessness to be dispelled, reflected with happy eyes the old-time jocundity now reawakened.
From Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens
The first was answered in a tone of bullying jocundity.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
In spite of such feeble jocundities, Spenser easily gets the goods on the errant pitcher.
From Time Magazine Archive
For Mr. Harold Smith was in earnest, and did not quite relish these jocundities.
From Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
