conviviality

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They were from countries all over the world and conferred names in the Kinyarwanda language with meanings including Courage, Thank you, Let us prosper, Conviviality, Ornament, Famous, Battle, Leader, Power, Curious and Wish.

From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2015

Conviviality is the rule aboard the Golden Gate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Conviviality is one good thing, and sobriety is another good thing.

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

Conviviality, candour, and great simplicity of manner, unite the different classes of society in the colonies, as well as in the mother-country.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina

Conviviality with them is not the happy abandonment to good fellowship and enjoyment, but the season of cold and studied calculation—the hour when, unexcited themselves, they trade upon the unguarded and unwary feelings of others.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James