jocularity

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Dignified of bearing, and a shade formidable, she was not given to jocularity or deliberate witticisms of any sort.

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  1. The quality of being jocular; merriment; jesting. On his departure he asked with bitter jocularity whether Becket had sought to leave the realm because England could not contain himself and the king. Milman, Latin Christianity, viii. 8.

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  • Dignified of bearing, and a shade formidable, she was not given to jocularity or deliberate witticisms of any sort. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
  • But at last I decided not to try to conceal my bloopers. —  The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein
  • Her jocularity was as flat as a three-day-old soda. —  Adam's Fall
  • Some of the jocularity was aroused by their appearance. —  Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762)
  • Thackeray was one of the sweetest and tenderest beings that ever lived, and no doubt his jocularity was assumed; but minor men take him seriously, and imitate him. —  Side Lights
 

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  1. = Italian giocolarità; as jocular + -ity.
 

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