festivally
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]festivally (comparative more festivally, superlative most festivally)
- (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of a festival.
- 2016, Jodie Taylor, Andy Bennett, The Festivalization of Culture, page 120:
- So you're much more part of the community if you go out and do festivally things.
Adverb
[edit]festivally (comparative more festivally, superlative most festivally)
- (obsolete, rare) In a festive manner.
- 1857, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, page 346:
- These three days of Byram they spend festivally, rejoicing with abundance of illuminations all night, shooting of guns, and fireworks flying in the air; for they reckon that all their sins are now done away, […]