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Webster 1913 Edition
Jollification
Jolˊli-fi-ca′tion
,Noun.
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)
- 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.
- 1872, Sheridan Le Fanu, "Mr. Justice Harbottle," Chapter 2, in In a Glass Darkly,