The use of a light, semi-jocose form to give the greater emphasis to serious subject-matter is characteristic of Browning.
The old servant merely says in jocose fashion that telling his story has made his blood course more rapidly and freely.
I looked in vain for the geniality in the editor's glance, and there was a remarkably complete absence of the jocose in the sharp, irritable words which he addressed to me.
But at that time being full of tender and affectionate sentiments, and not susceptible of any other, I perceived in his biting sarcasms nothing more than a jest, and believed him only jocose when others would have thought him mad.
Instead of looking upon me with his usual moroseness, he said to me a hundred jocosethings without my knowing what he meant.
The air resounded with hysterical giggling and screaming as the women frantically clutched their bearers, some of whom extorted unreluctant kisses under jocose threats of tumbling their burdens over into the mud.
We must always stick together, Matt,” cried Herbert, with jocose enthusiasm.
But in the meantime our dear Miss Julia accepted sentence and execution with a gentle and even a jocose resignation which made us both miserable.
Yet even her jocose and sidelong style could no longer conceal an interest which had become more dramatic than she was aware.
He therefore also talked to my Lady Papua, and was jocose about the Baron,--not altogether to the satisfaction of Mr. Harold Smith himself.
Of money transactions she had known nothing, beyond a jocose attempt to make her annual allowance of twenty-five pounds cover all her personal wants--an attempt which was made jocose by the loving bounty of her father.
A jocose turn seems also to have been given to that common contraction of the Satanic name of which Mistress Page makes use in the 'Merry Wives' when she exclaims, "I cannot tell what the dickens his name is!
A Mr. Magrath, of Killmallock, was inclined to take a jocose view of the situation.
In the present instance, they seemed particularly gay; Miss Sally's aspect being of a most oily kind, and Mr Brass rubbing his hands in an exceedingly jocose and light-hearted manner.
His legs, indeed, became so slight, that many of his jocose companions amused themselves with striking at them with straws as he passed through the farmyard of a morning.
To be jocose is not the sole requisite of him who would fain be a universal diner-out.
Johnson in a jocose manner, desired to know if he should be invited to see it.
Trover had just tact enough for the occasion, and was most jocose wherever the point was a perilous one.
Where that jocose humor you indulged in ten minutes ago?
I soon had a tremendous reputation for courage, and nothing less than that would have sufficed to check the jocose remarks which my beardless face and effeminate manner would infallibly have called forth.
Accordingly he began a series of questions and cross-questions, all in a jocose way, but so that the very drift of his inquiries soon allowed us to perceive what he really esteemed us.
Yet not every lie is a cause of deception, since no one is deceived by a jocose lie; seeing that lies of this kind are told, not with the intention of being believed, but merely for the sake of giving pleasure.
Thus it is evident that it is neither an officious nor a jocose lie, and consequently it must be a mischievous lie.
The first of these is called an officious lie, the second a jocose lie, the third a mischievous lie.
Accordingly a jocose lie, from the very genus of the action, is of a nature to deceive; although in the intention of the speaker it is not told to deceive, nor does it deceive by the way it is told.
Wherefore an officious or a jocose lie is not a mortal sin in perfect men, except perhaps accidentally on account of scandal.
Now a circumstance of person does not transfer a sin to another species, except perhaps by reason of something annexed to that person, for instance if it be against his vow: and this cannot apply to an officious or jocose lie.
Therefore jocose and officious lies are not mortal sins.
For the fifth kind is the jocose lie, which is told "with a desire to please": and the remaining three are comprised under the officious lie, wherein something useful to another person is intended.
Some lies are told for a good purpose, as when one lies in order to please (jocose lie) or to serve another (officious lie).
Jocose lies include all kinds of humorous and interesting narrations and descriptions meant only to afford pleasure, but given out as facts by one who does not believe them to be facts.
In other words, lies that are not pernicious are not so bad as pernicious lies, officious lies are less sinful than jocose lies, officious lies told for the sake of some great good are not so grave as those told for the sake of a lesser good.
The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense.
She did not understand the jocose and unusual style of speech of the student, but something drew her simple heart to him.
But then, she could, with amazing speed and wit, solve all possible jocose oral head-breaking riddles, and even remembered very many of them herself from the thousand year old usage of the village.
He knew an endless multitude of ballads, catches, and old-fashioned, jocose little pieces.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jocose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
