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jocund

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joc·und  (jknd, jknd)
adj.
Sprightly and lighthearted in disposition, character, or quality.
[Middle English, from Old French jocond, from Latin icundus, icundus, from iuvre, to help, delight.]
jo·cundi·ty (j-knd-t) n.
jocund·ly adv.
jocund [jok-kund]
Adjective
Literary cheerful or merry [Latin jucundus pleasant]
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Adj.1.jocund - full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh"
jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, gay
joyous - full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon"; "joyous laughter"


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Rebecca and Emma Jane always knew when she had brought a tart or a triangle of layer cake with her school luncheon, because on those days she forsook the cheerful society of her mates and sought a safe solitude in the woods, returning after a time with a jocund smile on her smug face.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
I felt assured, at first sight, that she was not a Belgian; her complexion, her countenance, her lineaments, her figure, were all distinct from theirs, and, evidently, the type of another race--of a race less gifted with fullness of flesh and plenitude of blood; less jocund, material, unthinking.
The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
And in any wise a man must so fashion and order his conditions and so appoint and dispose himself, that he be merry, jocund and pleasant among them, whom either Nature hath provided or chance hath made, or he himself hath chosen to be the fellows and companions of his life, so that with too much gentle behaviour and familiarity he do not mar them, and by too much sufferance of his servants make them his masters.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
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