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Word Meanings - FESTIVITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety. The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth. Bp. Hurd. 2. A festival; a festive celebration. Sir T. Browne.

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  • TREATMENT
    1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
  • GAYETY
    1. The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season. 2. Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress. Syn. -- Liveliness; mirth;
  • DROOPER
    One who, or that which, droops.
  • PURIFY
    1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
  • REVELLENT
    Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
  • DEBAUCHMENT
    The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
  • FROLICKY
    Frolicsome. Richardson.
  • REVEL
    See REVEAL
  • CHEERINESS
    The state of being cheery.
  • BANQUETTE
    A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
  • MASQUERADER
    One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask; one disguised.
  • FEAST
    festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
  • DEBAUCHNESS
    Debauchedness.
  • DROOPINGLY
    In a drooping manner.
  • DEBAUCH
    To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke.
  • REVELATION
    1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
  • CHEERISNESS
    Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
  • CHEERINGLY
    In a manner to cheer or encourage.
  • SPORTLESS
    Without sport or mirth; joyless.
  • CHEERER
    One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.
  • UPCHEER
    To cheer up. Spenser.
  • DISPORT
    Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
  • MISTRANSPORT
    To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
  • TRANSPORTING
    That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
  • UNWEARY
    To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden.
  • RETREATFUL
    Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
  • TRANSPORTAL
    Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
  • TRANSPORTABILITY
    The quality or state of being transportable.
  • ENTREATY
    1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;

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