Meanings
nounjocundry (plural not attested)
alternative jocondrie
- archaicno pluralJocund action or behaviour; merriment.
yet no perſon upon Earth had a ſweeter Jocundry of mind then ſhe, nor who better pleaſed thoſe unto whom ſhe was freely pleaſed to communicate her ſelfe;
1653, Madeleine de Scudéry, translated by F. G., Artamenes: Or Cyrus the Great, volume 2, London: Humphrey Moseley, part VIII, page 110
Origin
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