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hilarity|hɪˈlærɪtɪ|
[ad. F. hilarité (14–15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. hilaritās, -tāt-em, f. hilaris, -us = Gr. ἱλαρός cheerful, gay: see -ity.]
1. Cheerfulness, gladsomeness; calm joy.
1568G. Skeyne The Pest (1860) 25 Temperat hilaritie and blythnes are maist commendable. 1670Clarendon Contempl. Ps. Tracts (1727) 594 That joy..which extends the heart to such an hilarity in the eyes, and in the countenance..that it cannot be concealed. 1776Johnson 12 Apr. in Boswell, No, Sir; wine gives not light, gay, ideal hilarity; but tumultuous, noisy, clamorous merriment. 1829Southey Sir T. More II. 148 The pleasure which they partake conduces..to health and present hilarity.
2. Boisterous joy; merriment.
1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 30 The coarse and vulgar hilarity. 1853De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. Wks. I. 202 Festal music..is the most remote of any from vulgar hilarity. 1894Amer. Missionary Nov. 378 The incomparable hilarity of the dusky cotton-pickers. |