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Festivity   /fɛstˈɪvəti/   Listen
noun
Festivity  n.  (pl. festivities)  
1.
The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety. "The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth."
2.
A festival; a festive celebration.





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"Festivity" Quotes from Famous Books



... victorious prince, stripped of his royal insignia, barefooted, and with all humility, approached the awful shrine, and offered up sacrifice and thanksgiving to the glorious Deity who presided over the fortunes of the Incas. This ceremony concluded, the whole population gave itself up to festivity; music, revelry, and dancing were heard in every quarter of the capital, and illuminations and bonfires commemorated the victorious campaign of the Inca, and the accession of a new ...
— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott
... dinner, going down to Cuyler's for an ice, or canoeing in Paradise at sunset took on a new interest. Seniors who had felt themselves superior to the material joys of fudge-parties and scorned the crudities of amateur plays and "girl-dances," eagerly accepted invitations to either sort of festivity. ...
— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde
... by it. The charming household was respected; everybody feted it. Monsieur and Madame Jules were sincerely liked, perhaps because there is nothing more delightful to see than happy people; but they never stayed long at any festivity. They slipped away early, as impatient to regain their nest as wandering pigeons. This nest was a large and beautiful mansion in the rue de Menars, where a true feeling for art tempered the luxury which the financial world ...
— Ferragus • Honore de Balzac
... in the convent school on the Torrero-hill to receive visitors on Thursdays. This festivity farther extended to the evening, when the girls were allowed to walk for an hour in the garden and talk. Talking, it must be remembered, as an indulgence of the flesh, is considered in religious communities to be a treat only permitted at certain periods. It is, indeed, only by ...
— The Velvet Glove • Henry Seton Merriman
... and more intelligent than most of their neighbours, kept up many of the usages of Fatherland on the Christmas occasion, perhaps more as wafting them back in remembrance of early enjoyment in the home circle, than from any present love of the festivity common at ...
— Watch--Work--Wait - Or, The Orphan's Victory • Sarah A. Myers


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