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Definition of Jovialty
1. n. Joviality.
Definition of Jovialty
1. Noun. (archaic form of joviality) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jovialty
1. the quality or state of being jovial [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jovialty
Literary usage of Jovialty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1887)
"Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of cordial jovialty. One would
have pronounced them brothers, but they did not know each other's names. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"... illustration of his versatile powers in the admirable bibn- lous sort of
jovialty which he distils, as it were, from the very dust of musty volumes. ..."
3. Danton by Hilaire Belloc (1899)
"The two years of discussion, the useless acrimony of the preceding autumn, began
to weary the voters— there is a sentiment of jovialty abroad. ..."
4. Seventeenth Century Studies: A Contribution to the History of English Poetry by Edmund Gosse (1897)
"... neighbourhood was the scene of a most lurid and mysterious event, which I may
be permitted to recount as a foil to the jovialty 01 the games themselves. ..."
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