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n. - Any joyous diversion.

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  • The second annual blogging festivity is going to be a little different than last years party.
  • And the mixture of pain and illness with splendor and festivity, is so unnatural, that probably it is to that we must attribute that a young woman is no where so hardly...
  • But indeed it could hardly be called a festivity, — it was so quiet and sombre.
  • The central feature of the festivity was a huge kettle, many feet in circumference, into which the
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