jocundity
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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 Washington Irving
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 Oliver Onions
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 Anthony Trollope
Ornament—strange as the doctrine sounds in a world decivilized—was in the beginning intended to be something jocund; and jocundity was never to be achieved but by postponement, deference, and modesty.
From Essays by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
I have seldom witnessed a more amazing cataclysm of jocundity!
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea by Montrose Jonas Moses
In spite of such feeble jocundities, Spenser easily gets the goods on the errant pitcher.
From Time Magazine Archive
For Mr. Harold Smith was in earnest, and did not quite relish these jocundities.
From Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
