jocund
adjective
cheerful; merry; blithe; glad.
jocundly
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a word derived from
jocund.
Example Sentences
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Not a word did she say of how she had mistreated him, and Solita answered her jocundly for that her lord had held his pledge with her.
From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
The experienced performer who acted the heroines now came forward and disported most jocundly.
From Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Jocundity, jocundly, jocundness, have also the short o.
From Every-Day Errors of Speech by L. P. Meredith
A lone son following a lone son, and he another--it was sad to contemplate, in that colonial beginning of days, three generations of good, Gallic blood tripping jocundly along in attenuated Indian file.
From The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable
Surely, Bannadonna," lowly resumed the milder magistrate, "you meant the twelve should wear the same jocundly abandoned air.
From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
