jocularity
noun
the state or quality of being jocular.
jocularities
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pluralof jocularity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Then there was a banquet, at which Teacher Scopes stammered a few embarrassed words and the important lawyers indulged in brilliant jocularities.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has, however, according to Horace, some low jocularities; and those smart sayings, which made the vulgar laugh, made him be pitied by men of higher taste.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson
These jocularities are interesting otherwise than politically; thin and weakly as they are, they inaugurated the style of later political caricature.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
It seems, from some jocularities attributed to his lordship, that he adds to his many other claims to distinction that of being a man of wit.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton
Krupp received the jocularities with the enigmatic good-fellow air with which he received everything.
From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett
