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The trait of merry joking
Answer for the clue "The trait of merry joking ", 10 letters:
jocoseness
Word definitions for jocoseness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
jocose \jo*cose"\ (j[-o]*k[=o]s"), 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. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the state of being jocose
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the trait of merry joking [syn: jocosity , merriness , humorousness ]
Usage examples of jocoseness.
Unhappily, the baronet, who by some fatality never could see when he was winning the battle, thought proper in his wisdom to water the dryness of his sermon with a little jocoseness, on the subject of young men fancying themselves in love, and, when they were raw and green, absolutely wanting to be--that most awful thing, which the wisest and strongest of men undertake in hesitation and after self-mortification and penance-- married!