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Jollification  n.  A merrymaking; noisy festivity. (Colloq.) "We have had a jollification or so together."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Jollification" Quotes from Famous Books



... here along with me. What was I saying just now? Something about wine; so it was. I'll tell you what, Mr. Butler, it isn't every day that a new master comes to Thorpe Ambrose; and it's my wish that we should all start together on the best possible terms. Let the servants have a grand jollification downstairs to celebrate my arrival, and give them what they like to drink my health in. It's a poor heart, Mrs. Gripper, that never rejoices, isn't it? No; I won't look at the cellar now: I want to go out, and get a breath of fresh air before breakfast. Where's Richard? ...
— Armadale • Wilkie Collins

... see if you wouldn't come down and help us get up a jollification at the store on ...
— The Moccasin Ranch - A Story of Dakota • Hamlin Garland

... address the convention was turned into a jollification meeting for a considerable time until the delegates were tired out by their enthusiasm and composed themselves to receive a telegram of greeting from President Woodrow Wilson addressed to Mrs. Catt: "Permit ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper

... chuckling, he took his way to the street-car line, and returned to the campus and the Yale jollification. ...
— Frank Merriwell's Reward • Burt L. Standish

... generally better hands than the red-coats at improvising a jollification—Jack, at any rate, does not take his pleasures sadly. The gallant bands that have from time to time gone forth to a bloodless campaign in the icy north, have always managed to keep their Christmas right joyously. ...
— Christmas: Its Origin and Associations - Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries • William Francis Dawson


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