jocundity
Example Sentences
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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
The first was answered in a tone of bullying jocundity.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
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
Before their imperturbable jocundity what bad humour can exist?
From The Tapestry Book by Candee, Helen Churchill Hungerford, Mrs.
The swaggering jocundity of his manner had all gone.
From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by Murray, David Christie
