What's the difference between jocose and jocund?

Jocose


Definition:

  • (a.) Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jocosity dates, and quickly becomes boring: chunks of the middle of Ulysses could go."
  • (2) Bron barely saw his father until he was five, and even thereafter Evelyn boasted with chilling jocosity that he saw his children "once a day for 10, I hope awe-inspiring, minutes".

Jocund


Definition:

  • () Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive.
  • (adv.) Merrily; cheerfully.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the Sun's marketing site, where they address the people who really matter to them, their corporate partners, they eschew the colloquial jocundity, where stars romp in love-nests and drop tots, here the silvery nomenclature of commerce reigns, the Sun's true tongue.
  • (2) She's a less jocund Heather Mills dressed for Whitby Goth Weekend, the sort of mate's new girlfriend you'd rather be bummed ragged by a White Walker than let on your pub quiz team.

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