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† ˈjocant, a. Obs.
Forms: 5 iocande, 5–6 iocaunt(e, 6–7 iocant.
[In form jocant, app. ad. L. jocānt-em, pr. pple. of jocārī (rarely jocāre) to jest, joke; but, in form jocande, prob. a corruption of joconde, jocund.]
Mirthful, merry, jocund.
c1440Gesta Rom. xxxi. 116 (Harl. MS.) When the knyght harde this, he was iocaunt & murye. 1494Fabyan Chron. vi. clxxxvi. 186 Iocande and mery tydynges out of Englande. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 218/2 The moonks [of Canterbury] on the other side were as brag and iocant. 1628J. Rous Diary (Camden) 28 The duke..was very jocant and well pleased. 1687J. Norris Coll. Misc. 87 And as they sung and play'd, the jocant orbs danc't round.
So † ˈjocantry [cf. pleasantry], mirth, merriment. Obs.
16..H. More, Such Jocantry..is but like the dancing of men and women in an unswept room. 1664― Myst. Iniq. ii. 1. xv, Two notorious Specimens of that Jocantry and Festivity, as I may so speak, that is sometimes observable in Divine Providence. |