jollification

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[ UK /d‍ʒˌɒlɪfɪkˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity
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How To Use jollification In A Sentence

  • The load son of the goods Lang pony elder brother's son ahead divide outdoor jollification, come to quite a few a meantime today small servant girl to buy thing.
  • Unfortunately, Ireland today is tapping the sophisticated capital market of Frankfurt not for investment, but for jollification.
  • While we were consumed by first strains of street-level Jouvert jollification, relatives of the late Grandmaster Kitchener were forced to mix merriment with memoriam as they marked the second anniversary of his death.
  • Betrayal, shame, forgiveness and revenge are the themes, plus some general jollification. Times, Sunday Times
  • The jollifications have taken second place this time.
  • I got there, met the director who was tremendous - all Irish jollification and full of wicked tales, read my lines and left.
  • He builds up an atmosphere of breathless jollification, comic hysteria, and turns it up to a pitch so high it can hypnotize kids and keep them frozen.
  • As a lover of festivity and general jollification, anytime the word ‘celebrate’ pops up I automatically conjure images of achievement being saluted with pomp relevant to the circumstance and, of course, appropriate catering.
  • At the bottom of all the agitation a wedding sets going in us all there is lying, I think a kind of misgiving, a secret pity for the fate of the poor rose which is picked now and must forthwith wither; and our boisterous jollification is but an awkward barely successful effort at concealing it. The Life of Froude
  • The next day, people of all ages go into the streets for jollifications and paint-throwing.
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