jocundity

Example Sentences

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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

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

I pleased myself with the idea how completely, when I came to the estate, I would renovate all things, and make the old building ring with merriment, till it was astonished at its own jocundity.

From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington

The swaggering jocundity of his manner had all gone.

From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by Murray, David Christie

She carried a delightful jocundity wherever she went.

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