jollities
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Stan's last surviving relative became coy and refused to enter into the jollities.
From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2011
A great outpouring of grief and anger and sorrow and doubt had to take place before the certainties and jollities of the mature writer could come into being.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 6, 2005
Pranks and jollities slide from gentle flippancy to hurly-burly burlesque.
From Time Magazine Archive
His quips, and cranks, his whims, and jollities, and jocund mischief, are but the effervescences of exuberant young life, the wild music of the mountain stream.
From Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales by Taylor, Robert L.
And of the delights and jollities of that life, dwelling here in a corner of England, thou canst not so much as cast an idea.”
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah
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