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Webster 1913 Edition


Jollification

Jolˊli-fi-ca′tion

,
Noun.
[
Jolly
+ L.
-ficare
(in comp.) to make. See
-fy
.]
A merrymaking; noisy festivity.
[Colloq.]
We have had a
jollification
or so together.
Sir W. Scott.

Definition 2024


jollification

jollification

English

Noun

jollification (plural jollifications)

  1. A merrymaking; noisy festivity.
    • 1872, Sheridan Le Fanu, "Mr. Justice Harbottle," Chapter 2, in In a Glass Darkly,
      [] old Judge Harbottle had arranged one of his dubious jollifications, such as might well make the hair of godly men's heads stand upright for that night.
    • 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, 1998, Chapter 2,
      [] the streams would run with wine instead of water and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.