Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of festivity; lack of cheerfulness or mirth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Lack of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness.
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- noun Lack of
festivity ,cheerfulness , ormirth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Moreover, Caillette experienced a superior sadness, sifted through years of infestivity and gloom, beginning when Diane was led to the altar by the grand seneschal of Normandy, that threw an actual, albeit cynical, interest about the love-tragedy of the duke's fool which the other divined and -- from his own past heart-throbs -- understood.
Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham
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That single plate, as well as the empty arm-chair so popular with Jane, emphasized the infestivity.
The Poor Little Rich Girl Eleanor Gates 1913
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Here was a venture at least within the borders of the mysterious country of Chance -- anyhow, it promised something better than the stale infestivity of a table d'hôte.
Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886
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Her days of infestivity were plainly ended, and her days of gladness were to begin.
A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884
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