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Jocundity

noun
1.
A feeling facetious merriment.  Synonym: jocularity.






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"Jocundity" Quotes from Famous Books



... else man merits his subjection to trivialities by a kind of economical greed. A condition for using justly and gaily any decoration would seem to be a certain reluctance. 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. Nor can the prodigality of the meadows in May be quoted in dispute. For Nature has something even more severe than moderation: she has an innumerable singleness. ...
— The Rhythm of Life • Alice Meynell



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