? Obs. [ad. L. jūcunditās, f. jūcundus: see prec. Cf. also obs. F. jucundité, beside jocondité. In Eng. jucundity appears as an effort to restore the original L. form; it is used not only in the subjective senses of JOCUNDITY, but in the objective sense of L. jūcunditās (sense 1 below).]
1. The quality of being pleasant to the senses or feelings; pleasantness, enjoyableness, With pl., an enjoyable or amusing circumstance.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, iv. 74. That the jucundity of it [food] entice them not to a perilous and nauseatiue fulnesse.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VII. xvi. 372. The new unusuall or unexpected jucundities, which present themselves to any man in his life.
2. Pleasure, delight, happiness: = JOCUNDITY 2.
1536. Primer Hen. VIII., 148. Iesu, the most highest benignitie, Of all hearts the great iucunditie.
1822. I. Taylor, trans. Apuleius, Philos. Plato, II. 265. The wise man … is the only man who always enjoys jucundity and security.
3. Enjoyment, merriment, glee: = JOCUNDITY 1.
1560. Rolland, Crt. Venus, I. 510. To spend their time in sum Iucunditie.
a. 1678. Woodhead, Holy Living (1688), 64. Health only is the true cause of eating … yet there accompanies it … a perilous jucundity, and goust, which mostwhat endeavours also to step before it.
1794. Mathias, Purs. Lit. (1798), 28. His modesty would attempt some jucundity from the Lusus Priapi.
