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jocundity|dʒəʊˈkʌndɪtɪ|
[ad. late L. jocunditās, f. jocund-us jocund: cf. OF. jocond-, jocundite, It. giocondità.]
1. Jocund quality or condition; mirthfulness, gaiety; mirth, merriment, glee.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. iii. 1121 Vngreyned grape in high iocundite Me may suppe of. c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) E iij, But mingle so in measure mirth and iocunditie. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus iii. 661 Iudas..With Thamar lay in his Iocunditie. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T., John ii. 9 Marriages among the Jews were celebrated with great Feasting, where moderate jocundity was thought seasonable. 1764Mem. G. Psalmanazar 160, I have seen many of them go up to the gallows..with a seeming jocundity, as if they were mounting the guard. 1882J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. xviii, He overflowed with jocundity, though he was neither a wit nor a humourist.
b. A merry act or saying; a pleasantry.
a1734North Exam. i. ii. §27 (1740) 43 The more Liberties he [Shaftsbury] took in the way of Pleasures and Jocundities..the more acceptable he was to the King.
†2. Pleasure, delight, joy, happiness (of a high or spiritual kind). Obs.
c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. lii. 124 Noon anxiete, blisful iocundite, swete companye & plesant to beholde. 1492Ryman Poems lxxxii. 7 in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LXXXII. 251 In blisse with me thy place shall be Replete with alle iocundite. 1628J. Hume Jewes Deliv. v. 76 He is joy and jocunditie to such as mourne. |
