Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
proper name, variant of Jocelin.
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Jocelyn is a surname and first name. It is a unisex (male/female) name. Variants include Josalyn Jocilyn, Joscelyn, Joscelin, Josceline, Joseline, Jocelin, Jocelyne, Jocelynne, Jocelynn, Joslin, Joslyn, Joclyn, Joselyn, Joselyne, Jocylen and Josslyn; people who have this name may find it is often misspelled by others. The name may derive from Josselin, a locality in Brittany, France, and was introduced to England after the Norman Conquest. It may also derive from the Germanic name Gauzlin, also spelled Gozlin or Goslin. It is Latinized as Iudocus or Judocus, from Breton Iodoc, diminutive of iudh (“lord”).
In French, the spelling "Jocelyn" is exclusively male. The female counterpart is spelled "Jocelyne".
The Irish name Oisdealbh is sometimes erroneously attributed to a translation of Jocelyn, to Gaelicize Jocelyn de Angulo's given name. In fact, MacOisdealbhaigh is the Gaelic translation of his brother Hostilo (or Hostilio) de Angulo's given name. It is Hostilo's descendants who would bear the surname Mac Oisdealbhaigh (son of Oisdealbh or Hostilo). The surname would later be anglicized to Costello, Costelloe, and Costellow.
Jocelyn is the second album by Jocelyn Enriquez, released in 1997 on Tommy Boy Records. It features her biggest mainstream hits to date, " Do You Miss Me?" and "A Little Bit of Ecstasy". "Get into the Rhythm" was also released as a single.
The track "Kailanman" is a cover of a song by Maso in the early 1990s, which itself is a Tagalog cover of the 1989 song "Saigo No Iiwake" by Japanese singer Hideaki Tokunaga.
Jocelyn (original Latin: Canzolinus, Italianised as Gozzelino) was an Italo-Norman officer serving Roger II of Sicily.
In 1134, he was appointed lieutenant to Guarin in the Terra di Lavoro with the title of Chamberlain (camerarius). In 1135 he was made the procurator of the Principality of Capua for the young Prince Alfonso while Guarin was made Alfonso's regent. He took part in the sieges of Montecassino and Salerno in January 1137. After Guarin's death on 21 January, Jocelyn succeeded him as interim chancellor (magister cancellarius) and took over the Italo-Norman forces trying to occupy Montecassino and defend Salerno from the army of the Emperor Lothair II. After securing the election of an Anacletan abbot at Montecassino, Jocelyn was replaced by Robert of Selby as chancellor.
Jocelyn (Op. 100) is a four-act opera by Benjamin Godard, set to a French libretto by Paul Armand Silvestre and the tenor Victor Capoul. Based on the poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, the action takes place in Grenoble and the surrounding mountains during Corpus Christi at the close of the 18th century. The score bears a dedication "A mon ami Daniel Barton".
This opera is remembered for Godard's most enduring composition, the tender berceuse (lullaby) for tenor, "Oh! ne t'éveille pas encore" commonly known in English as Angels Guard Thee.
Jocelyn premièred on 25 February 1888 at Le Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium with Pierre-Émile Engel creating the title role. A production with a new cast, including Capoul in the title role, opened in Paris at the Théâtre-Lyrique-National on October 13 of the same year.
'Jocelyn ' is a 1952 French film. It stars Yvette Etiévant.
Jocelyn is a 1933 French drama film directed by Pierre Guerlais and starring Samson Fainsilber, Marguerite Weintenberger and Octave Berthier. It was remade in 1952.
Usage examples of "jocelyn".
Lord Duke Pertinax, most gracious Duchess, Jocelyn the high and mighty Lord Duke of Brocelaunde greeteth you in all love and amity, and hither rideth to claim a fair lady to wife.
The sun was low when they came before the walls of Canalise, and passing beneath grim portcullis and through frowning gateway, with ring and tramp, crossed the wide market square a-throng with jostling townsfolk, who laughed and pointed, cheered and hooted, staring amain at Jocelyn in his threadbare motley.
Then answered Jocelyn on lowly knee: "For thy sweet bounty I do thank thee well, But, in good sooth, so great a fool am I, 'Stead of thy gold I rather would possess Yon happy flower that in thy bosom bloometh.
And fair Yolande, amid these bloomful languors, Blushing as they, as languorous, as sweet, Sighed in the arms that passioned her around: O Jocelyn, O lord of my delight, See how-- GILL: Stop, father, stop, I beg of you.
SIR PALAMON: For that therefore I need not to the joust, to that bone-shattering sport of boastful, brutal braggadocios, but here, lapped soft in the gentle green, woo the fair Yolande-- JOCELYN: How, knight, the fair lady Yolande, say'st thou?
Sir Jocelyn raised his head and looked across the table at his cher collegue from Bonn.
At Playmont Fair, Duke Jocelyn of Castle Foire sponsored a magnificent tournament-at-arms, where armored knights played at combat, and competed in a new sport known as jousting.
Jocelyn, the deacon, and Danvers sat around a campfire, staring into the flames and sipping something out of tin cups.
Prentiss, the couple's daughter, who resides in Covina with her husband and two children, Bobby, 4, and Jocelyn, 2, said that her father had bought the store three months ago, after moving to Los Angeles from Glen Ellyn, Ill.
We'll have a photokit by four o'clock----'He was interrupted by the slight knock on the door, and the arrival of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Chief Constable, Frank Scott, and General Sir Jocelyn Fairbairn, GOC Northern Ireland.