jocund

• “Glad" is from the Greek word for laughter, and the word "jocund" comes from a Latin term signifying "pleasant.”

  History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour

• “On the other hand, nine persons either could form no opinion or were entirely wrong, answering, "cunning leer," "jocund," "looking at an intense light," "looking at a distant object," &c.”

  The expression of the emotions in man and animals

• “But Eve is described as "jocund" and "blithe" only when she is intoxicated by the mortal fruit of the tree; and the note of gaiety that is heard faintly, like a distant echo, in the earlier poems, is never sounded again by”

  Milton

• “Stefàn lowered his head briefly and a jocund sound escaped his lips.”

  Simon & Schuster: Who Said It Would Be Easy

• “In that way stranded motorists can be warmed and indulge in some jocund seasonal fellowship.”

  The Guardian: Can we have a Stop Making Stupid Bills bill? | Kevin McKenna

• “New York Fashion Week's candles are burnt out at Lincoln Center and jocund London stands tiptoe on the misty fashion fronts, but aptly named Circa Lounge's flame continues to burn bright.”

  The Huffington Post: Anisha Lakhani: New York Fashion Week's Dazzling Newcomer: CIRCA Lounge

• “A second hourglass is found beside the lectern in the miniature studiolo, a particularly jocund play of temporal and spatial layering.”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

• “The tide of youthful glee flowed jocund from her heart, and the transparency of her fine blue veins almost shewed the velocity of its current.”

  Camilla

• “But he was desirous, like a prudent governor, at the same time to get rid, if possible, of the internal enemy, in which light he considered almost every one who eat and drank, ere he took measures to exclude those whom their jocund noise now pronounced to be near at hand.”

  The Bride of Lammermoor

• “Wordsworth in his "Ode to Duty" claimed "a poet could not but be gay/in such a jocund company.”

  Newsweek: Please Return The Word Gay

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