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    Jocelyn

    JOS-lin

    Meaning

    Joyous; Little Goth; Cheerful

    Germanic/French origin · Girl

    What it points to

    Jocelyn feasts continually — merry heart making cheerful countenance, affliction overcome by gladness, the joyous soul whose feast never ends.

    Verses · King James Version

    “All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.”

    Proverbs 15:15

    “A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.”

    Proverbs 15:13

    Most used in the 2000s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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