jesting
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jesting (countable and uncountable, plural jestings)
- joking
- 1599, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in The Passionate Pilgrime. […], 2nd edition, London: […] [Thomas Judson] for W[illiam] Iaggard, and are to be sold by W[illiam] Leake, […], →OCLC:
- Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 151:
- 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.
- bantering; ridicule
- mocking
Adjective
[edit]jesting (comparative more jesting, superlative most jesting)
- facetious
- humorous
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 15, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- He will find that these are no jesting matters.
- playful; mocking
- jeering
Verb
[edit]jesting
- present participle and gerund of jest