The Wonderful World Of Words, 2/22/17
You take the good, you take the bad,
you take them both and there you have...today's word!
DEFINITION:
Noun
A mix of mirth and seriousness. Half joking, half serious
ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:
1665-75
Latin (jocōsus- "joke") + (-sērius “grave", "earnest")
PRONUNCIATION:
jō
kôsē´rĭ`ŭs
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SCRABBLE SCORE:
20!
USAGE/EXAMPLES:
“A bookish Briton writing while imperial war again loomed in the aftermath of 9/11, Keymer is especially sensitive to the pain of history in Sterne's JOCOSERIOUS (a favourite word) novel."
--Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel
by Thomas Keymer, 2008
"Ambiguous allegories: what the mythological comedia reveals about Baroque tragedy. But the work is also a provocative literalization of the Minimalists' sculptural turn to the horizontal, and a JOCOSERIOUS gloss on Fried's theatricality."
--Gerard Byrne, Visual Artist
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