Meanings of jocosity in English

It contained the usual assortment of conventional praise and vulgar jocosity:-

Isn't the thing he lacks the back-slapping jocosity that passes for humor here?

The jocosity exemption might cover some of the lies, but surely not all.

From some of his observations we might think he was altogether averse from jocosity.

Mr. Birch turned to her with confidential jocosity.

Thorne did not respond to this jocosity.

She sang, and joked, and danced, and played, with an excess of jocosity that jarred him painfully.

At that there was a great laughter, and much jocosity from the cock-lairds at their friend's expense.

In this letter there is a tone of jocosity with reference to the victim, which filled me with horror.

All along he inferred that she understood him, and accepted his veneer of jocosity and insincerity at its true value.

Mr. Wentworth's jocosity increased.

Was not she by her foolish falsification- apieceof mild jocosity, no doubt-theprime author of all the evil that had followed?

There those who had only known him in his professional capacity were surprised to find him displaying the tenderness and jocosity of a parent.

The term 'old boy' has, alas, declined upon the vernacular, and been put to base uses of jocosity, so it is a forbidden one.

The Basset boy tried to fix his strained attention upon anything rather than upon that tone of high jocosity between Hetty and the shiny-haired clerk.

Shrank or eliciting ponderous jocosities from the other workers.