Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Jollity

Jollity , noun

[From Jolly: compare Old French jolieté, joliveté.]

Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity; boisterous enjoyment. — Chaucer
All now was turned to jollity and game. — Milton
He with a proud jollity commanded him to leave that quarrel only for him, who was only worthy to enter into it. — Sir P. Sidney