conviviality

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The cap is then sent round for contributions towards a further instalment of the foundation of conviviality, which is fetched from the canteen or the sergeant's mess; and another and yet another supply is sent for, as long as the funds hold out and somebody keeps sober enough to act as Ganymede.

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  1. A convivial spirit or disposition.
  2. The good humor or mirth indulged in at an entertainment; goodfellowship. These extemporaneous entertainments were often productive of greater conviviality than more formal and premeditated invitations. Malone, Sir J. Reynolds, p. 51.

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  • As Horace and most of the old Latin Poets dwell much on the praises of ancient conviviality, and appear to have valued themselves considerably on their connoisseurship in wine, it was with great pleasure I descended into the spacious cellars, sunk and vaulted beneath the arcade above-mentioned. —  Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents
  • He was a martyr to conviviality, and when more or less under the sway of it, had strange ideas and quaint ways of expressing them. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V1
  • It's quite rare to see such enthusiasm, conviviality, and kindness, or such an unpretentious approach. —  State of the Art
  • It was this spirit of conviviality, as well as this passionate consumption of what he considers to be the world's greatest wines, that prompted Johnnes to hold his own such celebration in New York. —  Vinography: A Wine Blog
  • On the instant he became the "good fellow," his pink face and beaming eyes radiating affability, conviviality, an all-embracing fondness for mankind, also a susceptible Don Juan keenly on the alert for adventure of a sentimental nature In appearance, too, he was a credit to the Bartlesville Commercial Club, when, with his pink face glowing above a glimpse of crimson neck scarf, dressed in pearl-gray spats, gray topcoat, gray business clothes indistinctly barred with black, and sučde gloves of London smoke, he bounded up the clubhouse steps with the elasticity of well-preserved fifty, lightly swinging a slender stick. —  The Man from the Bitter Roots
 

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  1. = French convivialité; as convivial + -ity.
 

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