Meaning of jocoserious | Babel Free

Definitions

Simultaneously jocular and serious; mixing mirth with serious matters.

Examples

“Our proposed removal to Mr. Small's was, as you suppose⟳, a jest, or rather a joco-serious matter⟳. We never looked upon it as entirely feasible, yet we saw⟳ in it something so like⟳ practicability, that we did not esteem it altogether unworthy of our attention. It was one of those projects which people of lively imaginations play⟳ with, and admire for a few days, and then break⟳ in pieces.”

““His genius was jocular; but, when disposed, he could be very serious.” It is a part of his joco-serious vein of late.”

“Was the guest conscious of and did he acknowledge these marks of hospitality? His attention was directed to them by his host⟳ jocosely, and he accepted them seriously as they drank in jocoserious silence Epps's massproduct, the creature cocoa.”

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