jocund
adjective
cheerful; merry; blithe; glad.
jocundly
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a word derived from
jocund.
Example Sentences
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Jocundity, jocundly, jocundness, have also the short o.
From Every-Day Errors of Speech by L. P. Meredith
Mrs. Diggs had been jocundly candid, and that was all.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
The experienced performer who acted the heroines now came forward and disported most jocundly.
From Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Beyond her dreariest ken of muffled voices, beyond her dingiest vista of slate and brick, on a far faint hillside, a far faint streak of April green went roaming jocundly skyward.
From The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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
