[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being jocund.
1. = JOCUNDITY 1.
1482. Monk of Evesham (Arb.), 86. He shewid alwey in wordys and countenans gladnes and iocundnes.
1548. Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke v. 34. Where reason would that al es should be ful of mirth and iocoundnesse.
1635. Swan, Spec. M., v. § 2 (1643), 178. Casting away … the clouds of the mind, and begetting jocundnesse in the heart.
† 2. = JOCUNDITY 2. Obs.
1426. Audelay, Poems, 26. Ther is no tong that con tel,… That joye, that jocundnes, that Ihesus wyl joyn hym to.
1625. Ussher, Answ. Jesuit, 264. Where is light and life, where is glory and jocundnesse, where is joy and exultation.
