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   What does jollity mean?

   • Much of the time, an air of jollity prevails. He had a way of bobbing up and down under the force of his own jollity. What is the pronunciation of jollity? JOLLITY definition: 1. the quality of being jolly (= happy and smiling), or behaviour that shows this: 2. celebrations…. Learn more.

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   What does Jolly Mean in English?

   • , plural jol·li·ties. jolly or merry mood, condition, or activity; gaiety. jollities, jolly festivities. “Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 See mirth.

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   How do you describe jollity in a sentence?

   • The given context defines jollity as gaiety or cheerfulness. For example, 'Santa Claus is always full of jollity'.

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   Is Jollity a real thing?

   • There has been no forced jollity. Yet it was easy to forget the ballet's dark scary heart amid the jollity of much of the staging. Foreign royals, it has to be said, often add to the jollity. All that fake jollity and enforced contact, not forgetting all those sprouts, has put the relationship under the most intense pressure.

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   Is there jollity in the ballet?

   • The visual jollity is deranging. There might have been room for more of this sort of jollity. It takes courage to drop such a downbeat number in the midst of so much crazed jollity. There has been no forced jollity. Yet it was easy to forget the ballet's dark scary heart amid the jollity of much of the staging.

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   Are jollity and gloom still at war?

   • Yet jollity and gloom are still at war in our censorious age. Jollity and gloom were contending for an empire,” wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne in his story “The May-Pole of Merry Mount. The man who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross actually and unironically references "the current economic jollity."

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   jolly (adj.) c. 1300 (late 13c. as a surname, late 14c. as the name of a dog), "merry, cheerful, naturally of a happy disposition; comical; suggesting joy or merriment," from Old French jolif "festive, merry; amorous; pretty" (12c., Modern French joli "pretty, nice"), a word of uncertain origin.

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   Meaning: Jollity refers to a state of lively, cheerful, and often boisterous good humor. It is a feeling of exuberance and enjoyment that is typically expressed through laughter, singing, dancing, or other forms of merrimaking. Origin: The concept of jollity has been around for centuries.

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   JOLLITY definition: 1. the quality of being jolly (= happy and smiling), or behaviour that shows this: 2. celebrations…. Learn more.

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   Word origin. ME jolite < OFr < joli: see jolly. jollity in American English. ( ˈdʒɑlɪti) noun Word forms: plural -ties. 1. jolly or merry mood, condition, or activity; gaiety. 2. See jollities. SYNONYMS 1. See mirth.

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   The earliest known use of the noun jollity is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for jollity is from before 1300, in Cursor Mundi: a Northumbrian poem of the 14th century .

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   The meaning of JOLLITY is the quality or state of being jolly : merriment. How to use jollity in a sentence.

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   noun. , plural jol·li·ties. jolly or merry mood, condition, or activity; gaiety. jollities, jolly festivities. Discover More. Word History and Origins. Origin of jollity 1. 1250–1300; Middle English jolite, from Old French, equivalent to joli (f) “gay” ( jolly ) + -te -ty 2. Discover More. Synonym Study. See mirth. Discover More. Example Sentences.