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jocosely, adv.|dʒəʊˈkəʊslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a jocose manner; playfully; in joke.
1712Broome (J.), Spondanus imagines that Ulysses may possibly speak jocosely, but in truth Ulysses never behaves with levity. 1728Curl in Pope's Dunc. ii. 3 note, What the Gentlemen of the long robe are pleased jocosely to call mounting the Rostrum for one hour. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 279 We have more than once, in the course of our work, been most jocosely familiar with great personages. 1879McCarthy Own Times II. xix. 54 He protested against having serious things treated jocosely. |