Now rare. [f. as prec. + -TY, shortened form of -ITY: cf. regality, royalty.] = JOVIALITY.
1621. H. Farley, St. Paule’s Ch. Ride on, likewise, yee worthy knights, With jovialty and pleasure.
1685. Baxter, Paraphr. N. T., 1 Peter iv. 3. In the bacchanals and jovialties of their Idolatry.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 259 (Æn. I. 635). The gifts and jovialty of the god.
