jocoseness

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For ease and jocoseness of description it stands almost unapproachable.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Yet can we wonder at the jocoseness of those arrayed in lawn and broad-cloth—can we marvel at the simper of the artisan fresh from his beef and pudding, solaced with tobacco and porter?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 by Various

But Cowper's hares never appealed to the popular heart with the force of Burns's sheep and mice and dogs, and the tender familiarity and wistful jocoseness of his poems to beasts have never been surpassed.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan

"Don't you approve of a wife burning incense before her husband?" said Sir Hugo, with an air of jocoseness.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George

"Mrs. Sampson passes the whole of Sunday forenoon committing the society columns of the Gossip to memory, and wishing her name was there," he chuckled, with a jocoseness which seemed to that lady extremely ill-timed.

From The Philistines by Bates, Arlo