jollification

jolly +‎ -fication

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

jollification (countable and uncountable, plural jollifications)

1. A merrymaking; noisy festivity.
   • 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “Drifting Into Danger”, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 92:

     I shall go down with you on Wednesday in time for the jollification on Thursday. I always enjoy that day; they are such nice, friendly people, those good Hollingford ladies.

   • 1872, Sheridan Le Fanu, “Mr. Justice Harbottle,” Chapter 2, in In a Glass Darkly,

     […] old Judge Harbottle had arranged one of his dubious jollifications, such as might well make the hair of godly men's heads stand upright for that night.

   • 1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 2, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998:

     […] the streams would run with wine instead of water and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.