Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Jocularity; merriment; waggery; jocoseness.
- noun A jocose act or saying; a joke.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A jocose act or saying; jocoseness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state of being
jocose . - noun countable A jocose utterance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fun characterized by humor
- noun the trait of merry joking
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Examples
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He was an odd mixture of awkwardness and complacency, a desire to be courteous struggling with a desire to show his independence; he had no ease of manner, no bonhomie, but a gruff and ugly kind of jocosity, which I am sure was not really natural to him, but was his protest against the possibility of my considering him to be shy.
The Silent Isle Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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Lewis Carroll's best parodies are pure poetry, but he was also capable of routine Victorian jocosity of producing a parody of Swinburne entitled (with a nod towards Atalanta in Calydon) 'Atalanta in Camden Town'.
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It had, of course, no truth in it whatsoever, and I more than once confessed publicly that it was only a jocosity … Scarcely a month goes by that I do not find the substance of it reprinted, not as foolishness but as fact, and not only in newspapers but in official documents and other works of the highest pretensions.
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It had, of course, no truth in it whatsoever, and I more than once confessed publicly that it was only a jocosity … Scarcely a month goes by that I do not find the substance of it reprinted, not as foolishness but as fact, and not only in newspapers but in official documents and other works of the highest pretensions.
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Sununu himself was passing the whole thing off with heavy jocosity.
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In this letter there is a tone of jocosity with reference to the victim, which filled me with horror.
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His features were not naturally intended to wear a smiling aspect, but he was in general rather given to professional jocosity.
Oliver Twist 2007
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In this letter there is a tone of jocosity with reference to the victim, which filled me with horror.
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I mean not the sad jocosity of P.O.M.216 passages or the mere callender of slaughter.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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I mean not the sad jocosity of P.O.M.216 passages or the mere callender of slaughter.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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