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Definition of Jovialities
1. joviality [n] - See also: joviality
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jovialities
Literary usage of Jovialities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Literary Landmarks of Oxford by Laurence Hutton (1903)
"We learn, from later chronicles, that " under the Commonwealth these Old World
jovialities were disused at Merton ; and soon afterwards died out. ..."
2. Literary Landmarks of Oxford by Laurence Hutton (1903)
"We learn, from later chronicles, that " under the Commonwealth these Old World
jovialities were disused at Merton ; and soon afterwards died out. ..."
3. Literary Landmarks of Oxford by Laurence Hutton (1903)
"We learn, from later chronicles, that " under the Commonwealth these Old World
jovialities were disused at Merton ; and soon afterwards died out. ..."
4. History of English Literature by Henri Van Laun, Hippolyte Taine (1871)
"They relate accordingly; and on this slender and flexible thread all the jovialities
of the feudal imagination, true and false, come and contribute their ..."
5. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"Otherwise, what popular descriptions might be written of the hospitalities of
Saint Columb's, of the jovialities of the mess of the —th Regiment, ..."
6. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... at Christmas, of the precursor of these modern jovialities—the ancient Roman
Saturnalia, in which the relations of master and servant were for a time ..."
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