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Definition of Jocosities
1. jocosity [n] - See also: jocosity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jocosities
Literary usage of Jocosities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essay-writing for Schools: A Practical Exposition of the Principles of this by Leslie Cope Cornford (1903)
"1 'Mr. Disraeli delivered a rambling and disjointed string of jocosities and
abstractions, by no means equal to his last Irish speech, which rather wearied ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"The Scotch have a great appreciation of those highly-evolved jocosities displaying
the humorous, although, no doubt, a scorn of simple, lowly-evolved ..."
3. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1867)
"There is nothing in it which a sincere regard for the author's memory could make
us wish absent, except its occasional jocosities. The idea of Greece which ..."
4. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"That the metre in which these jocosities were composed was the terza rima,
invented (as it %vould seem) by Dante for his sacred poem, and used by Petrarch ..."
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