Definition of "jesting" []

• Joking (noun)
• Bantering; ridicule (noun)
• Mocking (noun)
• Facetious (adjective)
• Humorous (adjective)

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• "However, this jesting is written by people who really know their Canadiana."
• "And he does not know that yesterday was a day of purposely prepared rack and thumbscrew, whereby he was justly tortured for his guilt in jesting about Tib's avoirdupoise-weight; but he knows how he missed her all day, and how essential she is to his very existence."
• "We laughed and jested lightly enough, as about us jostled the merry throng; but under our jesting was the deep earnestness of man and woman well advanced across the threshold of love and yet not too sure each of the other."