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jollity

[ jol-i-tee ]

noun

plural jollities.
  1. jolly or merry mood, condition, or activity; gaiety.
  2. jollities, jolly festivities.


jollity

/ ˈ»åÏôÉ’±ôɪ³Ùɪ /

noun

  1. the condition of being jolly
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of jollity1

1250–1300; Middle English jolite, from Old French, equivalent to joli(f) “gay†( jolly ) + -te -ty 2
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Synonym Study

See mirth.
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The result produced the forced jollity of a room in which the audience is strenuously urged to “sing along now!â€

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Both are also generally spared the over-emphatic jollity that Dehnert has evidently encouraged as a way of plowing through difficult passages of dialogue and forcing the weird jokes to bloom.

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Nothing goes quite as planned, and Silvio’s irrepressible jollity is no match for the tides and crosscurrents of postwar Italy.

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And the bonding agent that incites all this frankly ferocious jollity is a great big CG crocodile answering to the name of Lyle who lives in the attic of that brownstone.

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But there’s an unhinged jollity to it, too.

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