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jollity

[jol-i-tee]

noun, plural -ties.

jolly or merry mood, condition, or activity; gaiety.

jollities, jolly festivities.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English jolite < Old French, equivalent to joli(f) gay (see jolly) + -te -ty²

Synonyms
1. See mirth.

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jollity (ˈdʒɒlɪtɪ)

—n , pl -ties
	the condition of being jolly

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"[T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything like order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance—old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc., in dusty and "most admired confusion." Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?"

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