Meaning of jollification in English
(Definition of jollification from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of jollification
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In the midst of the jollification there came a sudden and unexpected knock on the door.
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Other trees turn at the same time and it is the time for picnics and for gathering mushrooms which is made a jollification.
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The jollification following the game threatened to wreck the chapel and crack the limestone ledge beneath it.
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The result was one of the biggest beer jollifications it has ever been my misfortune to attend.
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I'm going back home to take part in a family jollification.
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While some of the companies sang, others were drilled, and all seemed to be having a general jollification.
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They were all overjoyed at his escape, and spent the afternoon in a jollification over his safe return.
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Then they celebrate their victory by some sort of jollification that lasts half the night.
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He even sometimes comes in with a little applejack, and then we have a "jollification" sure enough.
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Drinking is their national vice; and they measure the social success of every wedding, christening, picnic, and jollification by its salvage of empty beer kegs.
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A similar psychological fact may be observed in the "jollifications" of political parties after the election of their candidates for high office.
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For four or five days there was a general jollification.
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A good strike or a point gained meant a general jollification.
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But this is a special occasion and more like a jollification than anything else.
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The men who had been engaged in the dance had left the scene of their jollification and moved in the direction of the station.
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