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“For these readers, it appeared, all took my idle jocosities with complete seriousness. . . . Pretty soon,” Mencken later wrote, “I began to encounter my preposterous ‘facts’ in the writings of other men. . . .

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2017

English translations, however, accompany the more salacious jocosities, and these invariably emasculate whatever finesse there may have been in the original.

From Time Magazine Archive

The play's emotional power derives from its harassed outcries and silences, from very human bafflements and needs, from a truly serious man's intensities and jocosities alike.

From Time Magazine Archive

And there is always the pleasure of hearing aristocrats indulging in their little jocosities, such as.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even the grimmest of jocosities wins its measure of respect in Vagabondia, and besides, her laugh removed the impression her sigh might have created.

From Vagabondia 1884 by Burnett, Frances Hodgson