jocundity

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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

The only thing that now distinguished this portion of the beach from the rest was a certain heightened jocundity in the advertisements on the sides of the bathing-machines at that spot.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

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

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

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 Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)