jollification

Definition

A merrymaking; noisy festivity.

Etymology

From jolly + -fication.

Example Sentences

• "I shall go down with you on Wednesday in time for the jollification on Thursday. I always enjoy that day; they are such nice, friendly people, those good Hollingford ladies."
• "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."
• "[…] the streams would run with wine instead of water and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end."