'jocosely' definitions:
Definition of 'jocosely'
From: WordNet
adverb
With humor; "they tried to deal with this painful subject jocularly" [syn: jocosely, jocular]
Definition of 'jocosely'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. --Shaftesbury. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Spondanus imagines that Ulysses may possibly speak jocosely, but in truth Ulysses never behaves with levity. --Broome. [1913 Webster]
- He must beware lest his letter should contain anything like jocoseness; since jesting is incompatible with a holy and serious life. --Buckle. [1913 Webster]