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jocosity
/dʒəˈkɒ.sɪ.ti/
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What does jocosity mean?
noun
- The state of being jocose.
- A jocose utterance.
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IPA pronunciation
/dʒəˈkɒ.sɪ.ti/
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“It would be more serious to lose Miss Evers than to find her,” remarked Captain Lovelock, with gallant jocosity.
“You will be interested to hear,” the old man said, with a momentary aspiration toward jocosity, “of another matrimonial venture in our little circle.”
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Decision, salubrity, jocosity, prosperity, seem to hover within his call; he is evidently a practical man, but the idea in his case, has undefined and mysterious boundaries, which invite the imagination to bestir itself on his behalf.
He had thought them the dupes of Rogers; but in that brief instant he had seen them--or thought he had seen them--his accomplices, ready to betray the interests of which they went on to speak with a certain comfortable jocosity, and a certain incredulous slight of his show of integrity.