Meanings
nounkilljoyism (uncountable)
- uncountableThe behaviour of a killjoy.
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This question was the topic of a very unsatisfactory Irish television debate in 1964, which paid too much attention to the Italianate statues and holy pictures of the nineteenth-century devotional revolution and the supposed infusion of Victorian values to explain the notorious killjoyism of Irish Catholicism.
2009, Marianne Elliott, When God Took Sides: Religion and Identity in Ireland - Unfinished History
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