[
UK
/dʒˌɒlɪfɪkˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity
How To Use jollification In A Sentence
- I wonder what joy and jollifications that has in store.
- Did the jollification mask anxiety about the long flight over the ocean?
- He had picked up the art of jollification at Oxford, entering ‘manfully into all their parties and scenes of dissipation.
- No, it's not the commercialisation that gets my goat, it's the forced jollification.
- In the flesh, we've gotten far closer to the jollification with which Santa is frequently associated.
- Lara kissed the earth as he had done in 1994 when first achieving such glory and embraced his faithful disciple Ridley Jacobs who, like Simon of Cyrene, had stayed with him and the air was filled with jollification.
- Kernan wrote in 1885 that in Dooley's Long-Room ‘there has come off more Irish jollifications, benefit balls, raffles for stoves, primary meetings, and political rows than in any other public place in the city.’
- Perhaps the At Large Membership study, which has a remit to widen public participation in the Net name quango, will conclude that this is best served not by elections but by spontaneous Soviet-style displays of jollification, instead.
- As an unabashed keeper of the Feast of Christmas, I choose to rub shoulders with the forces of jollification, merriment, and solemnity.
- My family and holiday pals are so bored they make a big effort with cards, gifts and jollification. Times, Sunday Times