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Definition of Jocularly
1. adv. In jest; for sport or mirth; jocosely.
Definition of Jocularly
1. Adverb. In a jocular manner; humourously. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jocularly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jocularly
Literary usage of Jocularly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1838)
"... and it a mentioned, that a celebrated beauty jocularly proposed a party, to
which none were to be admitted who did not consider SAM. WELLER a gentleman! ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"The mark of noon on n dial is in the following passage jocularly called the
Christ-cross of the dial, being the (¡¡jure of a cross placed instead of xii. ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Archie accompanied Charles prince of Wales into Spain in 1624 ; hence, in the
masque performed on his return, Jonson jocularly calls him a sea-monster. ..."
4. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"A priest was sometimes jocularly termed a lerry-cum-poop. There's a girl that
knows lier ... jocularly ..."
5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1803)
"... jocularly excusing herself by saying she wa» born under the sign Scorpio; •
8e-' v«ral other instances of a similar nature may be found in the work.of ..."
6. A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1902)
"... if he mean that it is equivalent to the Latin rupes" (DOUCE): But in the above
passages the Host uses bully-rook jocularly, certainly not as a term of ..."
7. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (1864)
"... we are having, in Pembrokeshire, what can only jocularly be called winter.
On the 3rd inst., when starting on a journey in the morning twilight, ..."
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