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Definition of Jocundities
1. jocundity [n] - See also: jocundity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jocundities
Literary usage of Jocundities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1895)
"... unexpected jocundities ' which is Sir Thomas Browne's conception of laughter,
the malignancy of corrosive satire, while clever, is always interesting, ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1814)
"... jocundities ; or the burnings of the Protestants in the time of Queen Mary,
or the destruction of buildings in the Riots in 1780, ..."
3. Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope (1911)
"For Mr. Harold Smith was in earnest, and did not quite relish these jocundities.
He had an idea that he could in about three months talk the British world ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"Thou, Poeta, art much to blame in this ; for know we were but in a merry humor,
and our strictures were, in truth, but jocundities. VENATOR : For a verity, ..."
5. The Life of Charles Lever by William John Fitzpatrick (1879)
"One of their companions in " jocundities" was my great- uncle, Jack Long, a
celebrity in Dublin eighty years ago. The marriage with James Lever I always ..."
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