jocundity

• She could remember no more of them than that they had seemed to hold a high singing and jocundity, issuing from some region of haze and golden light; and they seemed to hover, ever on the point of being recaptured, yet ever eluding all her mental efforts. —  Widdershins
• The flood of laughter, jocundity, and semi-boisterous frolic continued to roll up and down the Corso all day long, never attempting to be anything but pure nonsense, indeed, but achieving, nevertheless, the wise end of nonsense in the right time and place--that of refreshing and lightening the mind and heart. —  Hawthorne and His Circle
• He looked again By no means undignified, the face presented that combination of slyness and jocundity which we are accustomed to imagine of the canonical jolly- dogs in mediaeval tales. —  The Hand of Ethelberta
• Ornament--strange as the doctrine sounds in a world decivilized--was in the beginning intended to be something jocund; and jocundity was never to be achieved but by postponement, deference, and modesty. —  Essays
• Ornament--strange as the doctrine sounds in a world decivilised--was in the beginning intended to be something jocund; and jocundity was never to be achieved but by postponement, deference, and modesty. —  The Rhythm of Life

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