jolliment

English

Etymology

From jolly +‎ -ment.

Noun

jolliment (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) jollity; cheer
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book), Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3:

     Matter of mirth enough, though there were none, She could devise, and thousand ways invent To feed her foolish humour, and vain jolliment.

References

• “jolliment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.