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
There is a distinction in not showing one's self often; but it is provoking to hear of the frolics and jollities which go on every day and every night, and from which I am banished.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Who at the same moment could have been so merry and so melancholy,—could have gone so deep into the regrets of life, with words so appropriate to its jollities?
From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony
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