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jollification
Part of Speech: noun
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Examples of usage:
- I sent for you, Mr Leather, to tell you that I have heard with sincere regret of your last outbreak, and- Yes, sir, said Shank, rudely interrupting, and I came here not so much to hear what you have to say about my outbreak- as you are pleased to style a little jollification- as to tell you that you had better provide yourself with another clerk, for I don't intend to return to your office. - "Charlie to the Rescue", R.M. Ballantyne.
- The wager was, that if the Queen of France should be guillotined the next noon, the one who lost should furnish brandy and cakes the next evening for a jollification. - "Marie Antoinette And Her Son", Louise Muhlbach Official.
- The more the merrier; for on each day, Our Princess 'scapes a husband's dreaded sway; She gives us all a good jollification, Besides munificent gratification. - "Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx", Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.