Definition of "jollity" []

• Convivial merriment or celebration. (noun)

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• "Note, The end of the sinner's mirth and jollity is heaviness."
• "The words will be parodied, and the chief effect I expect from them must arise from their being _known_; for the joke will be much less for these jolly fathers to sing any thing new, than to give what the audience are used to annex the idea of jollity to."
• "Charles, however, on account of his "jollity" and Spanish experience took him with him to Spain in 1659, though his presence was especially deprecated by the"