Adjective : a witty and jocund group. From Dictionary.com.
The experienced performer who acted the heroines now came forward and disported most jocundly. From Wordnik.com. [Coningsby] Reference
The reviving day, laughing jocundly through his lattice, dispelled all the fears and superstitions that belong to night. From Wordnik.com. [Zanoni] Reference
While he washed his dishes in the fine sand and rinsed them in the current of the creek he announced jocundly to a young world glad with spring. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, You Tex!] Reference
And therefore he has no power of himself to leave, or turn out of it; but he is ruined jocundly and pleasantly, and damned according to his heart's desire. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.] Reference
The repast over, the piper of the adjacent cottages appeared; and, placing himself on a projecting rock, at the carol of his merry instrument the young peasants of both sexes jocundly came forward and began to dance. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference
Dance we must, and dance we shall; that is settled; the question of magnitude is, Shall we caper jocundly with the good grace of an easy conscience, or submit to shuffle half-heartedly with a sense of shame, wincing under the slow stroke of our own rebuking eye?. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales] Reference
Among others she wrote to her father, of whom she jocundly inquired if he would not like a nice little winter retreat neatly kept by his little Nell, where he could escape the icy bonds of the New England winters, and concluded by referring him for further information on the subject, if he desired it, to Mrs. Julia Norton. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Norton: Or, Southern Slavery and the Bible. A Scriptural Refutation of the Principal Arguments upon which the Abolitionists Rely. A Vindication of Southern Slavery from the Old and New Testaments.] Reference
He is likewise declared innocent of the case privileged from the knapdardies, into the danger whereof it was thought he had incurred; because he could not jocundly and with fulness of freedom untruss and dung, by the decision of a pair of gloves perfumed with the scent of bum-gunshot at the walnut-tree taper, as is usual in his country of Mirebalais. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2] Reference
For as the best and most beloved of God's saints have lain under this doleful and desponding condition, so, for the most part, the vilest persons breathing have passed their lives freely and jocundly, without the least misgiving or suspicion about their eternal concerns, who yet at length have met with a full payment of wrath and vengeance in the other world for all their confidence and jollity in this. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.] Reference
"Surely, Bannadonna," lowly resumed the milder magistrate, "you meant the twelve should wear the same jocundly abandoned air. From Wordnik.com. [The Piazza Tales] Reference
Burn, so we spent the day jocundly. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
At least we'll wear our fetters jocundly. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference
Everywhere the birds were singing jocundly. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Gray] Reference
More jocundly to express. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England] Reference
As Walter walked slowly on, the sound of voices from some rustic party going homeward, broke jocundly on the silence, and when he paused for a moment at the stile, from which he first caught a glimpse of Lester's house, he saw, winding along the green hedgerow, some village pair, the "lover and the maid," who could meet only at such hours, and to whom such hours were therefore especially dear. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference
She having, in zeal of affection, kissed and embraced them both, all else present being clearly resolved from the former doubt, which too long deluded them, the ladies arose jocundly from the tables, and attending on Griselda to her chamber, in sign of a more successful augury to follow, took off her poor contemptible rags, and put on such costly robes which, as Lady Marchioness, she used to wear before. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Griselda] Reference
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