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
Carminative—there was the idea of singing and the idea of flesh, rose-coloured and warm, with a suggestion of the jollities of mi-Careme and the masked holidays of Venice.
From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous
"My sullenness," said Phocion, "never yet made any of you sad, but these men's jollities have given you sorrow enough."
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
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