jolliment
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
jolliment (uncountable)
- (obsolete) jollity; cheer
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book), Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3:
- Matter of mirth enough, though there were none, She could devise, and thousand ways invent To feed her foolish humour, and vain jolliment.
References[edit]
- “jolliment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.