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Jocose

Jocose Meaning & Definition
Jocose Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Jocose?

[adj] characterized by jokes and good humor

Synonyms | Synonyms for Jocose: humorous | humourous | jesting | jocular | joking

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Jocose In Webster's Dictionary

\Jo*cose"\, a. [L jocosus, fr. jocus joke. See {Joke}.] Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. --Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. --I. Watts. Syn: Jocular; facetious; witty; merry; pleasant; waggish; sportive; funny; comical. -- {Jo*cose"ly}, adv. -- {Jo*cose"ness}, n. Spondanus imagines that Ulysses may possibly speak jocosely, but in truth Ulysses never behaves with levity. --Broome. He must beware lest his letter should contain anything like jocoseness; since jesting is incompatible with a holy and serious life. --Buckle.

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