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• s  full of or showing high-spirited merriment
  a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth

• When debate was recommenced by candlelight, jocund Members testified to the inconsequence of the proceedings by blowing out the candles as fast as they were lighted, until it .
• The jocund vitality which lured Grischa to mad escape is no less vivid than his fatalistic reluctance to escape again.
• The brow of Dean Inge, never very jocund at best, was painfully overcast.

• gay
• jolly
• jovial
• merry
• mirthful

News & Articles

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• Singer Javier Colon Hosting Hartford Spelling Bee
  Teams From Schools, Youth Groups, Businesses Compete Oct. 4 The event coming up in Hartford on Oct. 4 will require a lot of jocund alacrity. The participants must be imperturbable, not larmoyant, not be shillyshallyers, and try their best to be wunderkinds.        
  Sept. 23, 2013 - Hartford Courant