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Meanings of jolliness in English

Portuguese
alegria
Catalan
jovialitat

Feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor.

alegria
Synonyms
Examples for "jollity"
Examples for "jollity"
1
The seriousness of age takes the place of the jollity of youth.
Laws
2
Straightway the jollity broke loose again with the reading of the names.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
3
On the after-deck the passengers in unrestrained jollity, had begun to dance.
Atlantis
4
On the ninth day the chattering and jollity came to an end.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
5
The Schutterij meetings are made the excuse for jollity, eating and drinking.
Dutch Life in Town and Country
1
The long day's march has tempered the joviality of the entire column.
The Deserter
2
They looked, and saw him in huge white shirt-sleeves, shaking with joviality.
Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University
3
I did not take to Captain Barlow, for all his affected joviality.
Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger
4
This remark sobered the father's joviality, and brought his mind to business.
The Prince and the Pauper
5
Miss Gloria Farrow, Registered Nurse, did not respond to my awkward joviality.
Highways in Hiding
Usage of jolliness in English
1
The Kekovich series is about manic energy, but the jolliness was brittle.
The Guardian
2
Rather is this a time of jolliness and glad indulgence.
The Works of Max Beerbohm
3
The jolliness of the little group communicated itself to the rest of the promenade deck.
Atlantis
4
His jolliness and kindness won him friends on all sides, as they had always done.
For Greater Things: The Story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka
5
Must we save our jolliness until we get home?
The Girls at Mount Morris
6
It's also the psychotic jolliness of the images.
The Irish Times
7
Let's take a look at this underused subgenre, and see how they rank on the festive-jolliness scale.
The Irish Times
8
Even my brother, Brian, seemed infected by the dreadful light-headed jolliness that plagued the rest of the city.
Double Dexter
9
Their jolliness drives away our cares.
Savva and the Life of Man: Two plays by Leonid Andreyev
10
Times of jolliness and glad indulgence!
The Works of Max Beerbohm
11
The jolliness was gone.
Goodbye dolly
12
His demeanor was one of pedantic pleasantness, exacerbated by a round jolliness customarily encountered among bakers or butchers not butlers.
Heartless
13
Since last night I've been with these infantry boy-officers who are doing such great work in such a careless spirit of jolliness.
Carry On: Letters in War-Time
14
Christmas parties bring joy to the world, as do hilarious jumpers which we wear with pride in pubs and offices to show off our jolliness.
The Irish Times
15
The contents of his brown bag, which he had tucked into his shirt for safety, jingled with a strange, hollow jolliness in the deserted gymnasium.
Carrie
16
"Not a lot of jolliness in Authier's message?"
Monday Mourning
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Translations for jolliness
Portuguese
alegria
Catalan
jovialitat
Jolliness through the time