jocundity

Example Sentences

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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 Murray, David Christie

Lorelei realized before long that this very jocundity of his, since it fed upon constant change and excitement, constituted the gravest menace to their happiness.

From The Auction Block by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Before their imperturbable jocundity what bad humour can exist?

From The Tapestry Book by Candee, Helen Churchill Hungerford, Mrs.

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

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