Jollity
['dʒɒlɪtɪ]
Definition
(n.) Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity; boisterous enjoyment.
Typist: Merritt
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Merriment, gayety, mirth, fun, frolic, joviality, hilarity.
Editor: Pratt
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See JOVIALITY]
Checker: Rene
Examples
- In the midst of the jollity produced by good cigars, good wine, and passable anecdotes, the landlord presented his bill. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Like the Miller of questionable jollity in the song, They cared for Nobody, no not they, and Nobody cared for them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He tried to lay the horrid bedside ghost in Red Seas of wine and jollity, and lost sight of it sometimes in the crowd and rout of his pleasures. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The forty hearts of those waving couples were beating as they had not done since, twelve months before, they had come together in similar jollity. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Oh, what a state of virtuous jollity! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I takes it reg'lar, and I can warrant it to drive away any illness as is caused by too much jollity. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Editor: Rosalie