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Jollity   Listen
noun
Jollity  n.  Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity; boisterous enjoyment. "All now was turned to jollity and game." "He with a proud jollity commanded him to leave that quarrel only for him, who was only worthy to enter into it."
Synonyms: Merriment; mirth; gayety; festivity; hilarity.






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"Jollity" Quotes from Famous Books



... could not easily be fixed into place in the rough hill life. Lans, always at his ease in Boston, seemed oddly out of tune in Lost Hollow. But try as he might, Sandy could not feel like himself, with Treadwell's cheerful laugh and big-hearted, patronizing jollity resounding through the cabin. He was too desperately and determinedly bent upon being "one of them" to ...
— A Son of the Hills • Harriet T. Comstock

... Harbor, were fain to lighten labor and mock fatigue with any species of fun suggested by circumstances or accident, and, as for music, they sang everything they could remember or make up. John Brown's memory and fate were fresh in the Northern mind, and the jollity of the not very reverent army men did not exclude frequent allusions to the rash old Harper's ...
— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth

... everybody! What a ripping morning!" And young Poppleson will call back in a Swiss yodel from somewhere in the shrubbery, and Beverly-Jones will appear on the piazza with big towels round his neck and shout, "Who's coming for an early dip?" And so the day's fun and jollity—heaven help ...
— Frenzied Fiction • Stephen Leacock

... midnight orgy of magic and Fetichism. A slave-climate gnawed at the bold edges of their characters and wore them down, as the weather rusted out more rapidly than anywhere else all the iron tools and implements of the colony. The gentler traits of the African character, mirth and jollity, affectionateness, domestic love, regard and even reverence for considerate masters, were the least impaired; for these, with a powerful religiosity, are indigenous, like the baobab and palm, and give a great accent to the name of Africa. What other safeguard had a planter with his wife and children, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 65, March, 1863 • Various

... music-room was a lovely bower of flowers and verdure and on a draped table was the huge cake with its sixty candles all ablaze, one for each year. My appearance disturbed their preparation for a moment only, then all was mirth and jollity. ...
— Sixty Years of California Song • Margaret Blake-Alverson


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