Meanings
nounjolliment (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountablejollity; cheer
Matter of mirth enough, though there were none, She could devise, and thousand ways invent To feed her foolish humour, and vain jolliment.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book), Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3
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