jocundity
Example Sentences
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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
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
The first was answered in a tone of bullying jocundity.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
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)
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
