jocundity

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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

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

Ornament—strange as the doctrine sounds in a world decivilised—was in the beginning intended to be something jocund; and jocundity was never to be achieved but by postponement, deference, and modesty. 

From The Rhythm of Life by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

It was all endured easily enough, and now and then there were outbursts of rollicking jocundity in spite of it The mere physical suffering of privation is not a thousandth part of its pain.

From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography 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)