joviality
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French jovialité
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ælɪti
Noun
joviality (countable and uncountable, plural jovialities)
- The state of being jovial; jollity or conviviality.
- 1651, Fulgenzio Micanzio, The Life of the Most Learned Father Paul, Of the Order of the Servie, translator not credited, London: Humphrey Moseley and Richard Marriot, p. 13,[1]
- The Duke […] willingly interposed the pleasures of wit and facetiousnesse with the grave cares of his government, tempering wisely his troubles with Joviality of words and actions […]
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter 5,[2]
- I noticed that Mr. Pumblechook in his hospitality appeared to forget that he had made a present of the wine, but took the bottle from Mrs. Joe and had all the credit of handing it about in a gush of joviality.
- 1881, Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper, Chapter 10,[3]
- This remark sobered the father’s joviality, and brought his mind to business.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, Chapter 24, IV,[4]
- By the joviality of their insults Babbitt knew that he had been taken back to their hearts, and happily he rose.
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part Two, Chapter 6,
- Joviality fled from the table, Shekhar studied his cards. Owad frowned at his. His foot was tapping on the concrete floor. More watchers came.
- 2014, Benjamin Poore, “Carry on campus: The satirical needling deflates the high-minded ideals of the groves of academy,” The Independent, 6 November, 2014,[5]
- Success on social media tends to instil in the early career academics and postgraduates who achieve it, after merciless encouragement from outreach and impact gurus in HE management, a kind of unwavering, po-faced self-belief in their own genius and thus the vital urgency of their research, the overall effect being a strange mixture of corporate cynicism and uneasy joviality.
- 1651, Fulgenzio Micanzio, The Life of the Most Learned Father Paul, Of the Order of the Servie, translator not credited, London: Humphrey Moseley and Richard Marriot, p. 13,[1]
Translations
Condition of being jovial
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