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

Mademoiselle, too, seemed affected by the sweetness and jocundity of the early day.

From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson

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 Onions, Oliver

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 Stephens, Robert Neilson

It was all endured easily enough, and now and then there were outbursts of rollicking jocundity in spite of it The mere physical suffering of privation is not a thousandth part of its pain.

From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by Murray, David Christie

She carried a delightful jocundity wherever she went.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry

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 Trollope, Anthony