jolliment

noun

jolliment

noun

Etymology From jolly + -ment.

1

Obsolete jollity; 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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