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
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
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
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
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
