Meaning of Jesting | Babel Free

Definitions

1. joking
   countable, uncountable
2. bantering; ridicule
   countable, uncountable
3. mocking
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings.”

“What an extraordinary mental delusion jesting is; that sort of laboured vivacity which fancies it is pointed when it is only personal; and more extraordinary still, it is always the resource of stupid people.”

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