jocundity

Example Sentences

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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 Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

By no means undignified, the face presented that combination of slyness and jocundity which we are accustomed to imagine of the canonical jolly-dogs in mediaeval tales. 

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Hardy, Thomas

She carried a delightful jocundity wherever she went.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry

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 Stephens, Robert Neilson

But they were now increasing the size of the letters in the advertisements and the jocundity of the pictures,—and the thing might be done.

From The Prime Minister by Trollope, Anthony