jocundity

Example Sentences

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I have seldom witnessed a more amazing cataclysm of jocundity!

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea by Moses, Montrose Jonas

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

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

Mademoiselle, too, seemed affected by the sweetness and jocundity of the early day.

From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson

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