What does the word jocund mean?
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Part of speech: noun
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JOCUNDITY.
Part of speech: adjective
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Jovial;
sportive.
Usage examples for jocund
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Larger
and
richer
grows
the
great
design,
till
it
is
set
in
some
wide
hall
or
corridor
of
the
House
of
Life;
and
the
figure
of
the
toil-
worn
knight,
with
armour
dinted
and
brow
dimmed
with
dust
and
sweat,
kneeling
at
the
shrine,
makes
the
very
silence
of
the
place
beautiful;
while
those
that
go
to
and
fro
rejoice,
not
in
the
suffering
and
weariness,
not
in
the
worn
face
and
the
thin,
sun-
browned
hands,
but
in
the
thought
that
he
loved
all
things
well;
that
his
joy
was
pure
and
high,
that
his
clear
eyes
pierced
the
dull
mist
that
wreathed
cold
field
and
dripping
wood,
and
that,
when
he
sank,
outworn
and
languid
after
the
day's
long
toil,
the
jocund
trumpets
broke
out
from
the
high-
walled
town
in
a
triumphant
concert,
because
he
had
done
worthily,
and
should
now
see
greater
things
than
these.
– At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson
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There,
the
garlands
wreathed
around
the
columns
of
the
hall-
there,
gleamed
still
and
frequent
the
marble
statue-
there,
amidst
peals
of
jocund
laughter,
rose
the
music
and
the
lay.
– The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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For
the
first
time
in
many
hours
he
thought
of
New
York,
of
the
fellows
at
the
club,
of
what
they
would
say
when
the
jocund
news
came
that
Billy
Magee
had
gone
mad
on
a
mountainside,
He
thought
of
Helen
Faulkner,
haughty,
unperturbed,
bred
to
hold
herself
above
the
swift
catastrophies
of
the
world.
– Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers