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Meaning of "jocoserious" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF JOCOSERIOUS

ˌdʒəʊkəʊˈsɪərɪəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JOCOSERIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Jocoserious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES JOCOSERIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of jocoserious in the English dictionary

The definition of jocoserious in the dictionary is mixing humour and seriousness.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH JOCOSERIOUS

Aquarius · cereous · cereus · cinereous · curious · deleterious · facinerious · hilarious · imperious · mock-serious · mysterious · nonserious · overserious · serious · Tereus · Tiberius · ultraserious · unserious · various · venereous

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE JOCOSERIOUS

jockeyish · jockeyism · jockeyship · jockney · jocko · jockstrap · jockteleg · joco · jocose · jocosely · jocoseness · jocosity · jocular · jocularity · jocularly · joculator · jocund · jocundity · jocundly · jocundness

WORDS THAT END LIKE JOCOSERIOUS

bi-curious · carious · delicious · delirious · furious · glorious · gregarious · illustrious · industrious · inglorious · injurious · laborious · lugubrious · meritorious · nefarious · notorious · precarious · spurious · vainglorious · vicarious · victorious

Synonyms and antonyms of jocoserious in the English dictionary of synonyms

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JOCOSERIOUS»

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The Ironic Temper and the Comic Imagination
51 Preface, Corrected Text Edition of Ulysses, p. xiv. In Jocoserious Joyce: The Fate of Folly in "Ulysses" (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991), Robert H. Bell's stress is on the varieties and persistence of antic folly in Joyce's novel. This emphasis on "lu-  ...
Morton Gurewitch, 1994
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Ulysses and the Irish God
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. (553.366) Here verbal elements are commingled, like the Eucharistic ...
Frederick K. Lang, 1993
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Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses
17.369 (677:10). jocoserious - Late in his career, Browning characterized himself as "jocoserious" and published a volume of poems called Jocoseria (London, 1883). The word was apparently coined by the minor English poet- critic Matthew  ...
Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman, 1989
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Like and Unlike God: Religious Imaginations in Modern and ...
And all of these little acts add up to a "jocoserious" liturgy: 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 ...
John Neary, 1999
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Objects of Desire: The Madonnas of Modernism
"Jocoserious" (1/677) implies that the theological event of transub- stantiation and the consubstantiality upon which it is predicated can occur in a comic mode. The word "jocoserious" memorializes this event with an affirmation that will begin in ...
Beryl Schlossman, 1999
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'Strandentwining Cable': Joyce, Flaubert, and Intertextuality
B.5, which Joyce used over the preceding summer of 1924, features a jotting that reads: James Joyce the Joker Killed his father with A blow of the poker96 Within a year, jocoserious parricide had given way to jocoserious peace of mind: J[ohn]  ...
Scarlett Baron, 2012
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Echoland: Readings from Humanism to Postmodernism
Rabelais' jocoserious pseudo-romance capturing all discourses takes up in Book III the problem of the uncertainty of our judgments and the need for Erasmian faith . The problem is posited more acutely as the collapse of cultural authority in ...
Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie, 2006
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Thought Outdanced: The Motif of Dancing in Yeats and Joyce
The Motif of Dancing in Yeats and Joyce Judit Nényei. Part Three " JOCOSERIOUS JOYCE" CHAPTER VI Dance as Epiphany Dancing in Joyce's epiphanies, verse, Part Three - "JOCOSERIOUS JOYCE"
Judit Nényei, 2002
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A Companion to the Works of J.M. Coetzee
I trust, therefore, that the usefulness of seeing Coetzee as engaged in a parodic, “ jocoserious” (GO, 103) project that seeks to avoid the oppositionality and rivalry of politics will be apparent. Referring to Erasmus's In Praise of Folly, in particular  ...
Tim Mehigan, Timothy J. Mehigan, 2011
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The Body in the Text: James Joyce's Ulysses and the Modern ...
In theology, Word becomes flesh but in Joyce's jocoserious comedy of it "all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away." The bodily correspondences of the schemes point in this direction: the narrative embodies organic ...
Evi Voyiatzaki, 2002

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JOCOSERIOUS»

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Tom Eblen: Lexington poet's latest collection adds to his national …
A reviewer once used James Joyce's made-up word jocoserious to describe Worley's poems. They are serious and funny, and sometimes ... «Lexington Herald Leader, Jan 14»
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The Alphabetical, Week 10: Eating grass and plotting
Jocoserious. Congratulations on staying all the way to end of the game, Alabama students. Jocoserious means half-joking and half-serious, ... «SB Nation, Oct 13»
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Anti-hijacker trap door among loony Ig Nobel prizes
In an appropriately silly word, it's jocoserious. "An anti-hijacking system for an airplane to be operated during flight," reads Pizzo's patent, filed ... «CNET, Sep 13»
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LOLPERA in Progress: One Step Closer to 'The Next Big Thing'?
When asked for a teaser, Pedroza offered the following jocoserious synopsis: "Act I is like in Les Mis[erables], where we introduce everybody ... «LBPOST.com, Jul 11»
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