[f. JOVIAL a. + -NESS.] Jovial quality, joviality.
1658. Hewyt, Serm., 32. Swearing with such persons, is but a grace and lustre to their speech … drunkenness, jovialness, or good fellowship.
1764. in Ann. Reg., 173/1. By way of ridicule of their jovialness and hospitality, when a man was in liquor, they would call him as drunk as a lord.
