jocundity
Example Sentences
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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
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 Trollope, Anthony
However, his spirits were not in their usual flow of jocundity just now, and his lively face was dashed with care.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
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
The swaggering jocundity of his manner had all gone.
From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by Murray, David Christie
