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

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 Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

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

From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson

The swaggering jocundity of his manner had all gone.

From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by Murray, David Christie