jocundity

American  

[joh-kuhn-di-tee] / dʒoʊˈkʌn dɪ ti /

noun

• jocundities
  plural

1. the state or an instance of being jocund; gaiety.

2. a jocund remark or act.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• jocundities
  plural

Etymology

Origin of jocundity

1375–1425; late Middle English jocundite; see jocund, -ity

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

jocundity jocundities

Before their imperturbable jocundity what bad humour can exist?

From The Tapestry Book by Mrs. Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee

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 Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

Learned and meditative as was Sir Thomas More, a jesting humour, a philosophical jocundity, indulged on important as well as on ordinary occasions, served his wise purpose.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

The only thing that now distinguished this portion of the beach from the rest was a certain heightened jocundity in the advertisements on the sides of the bathing-machines at that spot.

From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions

Fanny, who had ever forced herself to the diffusion of merriment when there was cheerlessness to be dispelled, reflected with happy eyes the old-time jocundity now reawakened.

From Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens

In spite of such feeble jocundities, Spenser easily gets the goods on the errant pitcher.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Mr. Harold Smith was in earnest, and did not quite relish these jocundities.

From Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope