Definition of "jollification" []

• Festivity; revelry. (noun)

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• "A woman fined at Wood Green Police Court said her name was JOLLY and she had been having a "jollification," yet the magistrate refrained from comment."
• "With small means, a large family, and a straggling parish, her time and energy were for the most part engrossed in sheer hard work, so that the prospect of a little "jollification," as she laughingly expressed it, came as a welcome variety."
• "Owen and Montagu heard them talk about ordering some brandy, and then arrange to have a "jollification," as they called it, that evening."