conviviality

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.

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869

How do you think the leadership can get around to this kind of conviviality that we're seeing here?

CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2009 2009

These upstarts made a sales pitch tuned to our anti-ESF prejudices, promising "human class size," "conviviality" and "a warm welcome."

Skiing Without the Lift 2008

Mr. Bond [Bondfield], and the returns of civility on my part could only be communicated [to] me through the same Channel, a kind of conviviality so tdious and irksome, that I had much rather have remained in silent Observation and Reflection.

John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961

I know you can't dine here in consequence of the tempestuous weather on the Covent Garden shores, but if you will come in when you have done Trinculizing, you will delight me greatly, and add in no inconsiderable degree to the "conviviality" of the meeting.

The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3 (of 3), 1836-1870 Charles Dickens 1841

If you take away from food the wholeness of growing it or take away the joy and conviviality of preparing it in your own home, then I believe you are talking about a whole new definition of the human being.

Bone Marrow--"Light of my life, fire of my loins." Sarah Lenz 2009

If you take away from food the wholeness of growing it or take away the joy and conviviality of preparing it in your own home, then I believe you are talking about a whole new definition of the human being.

Archive 2009-06-01 Sarah Lenz 2009

If you take away from food the wholeness of growing it or take away the joy and conviviality of preparing it in your own home, then I believe you are talking about a whole new definition of the human being.

Ringing in the New Year with Pork Sarah Lenz 2009

If you take away from food the wholeness of growing it or take away the joy and conviviality of preparing it in your own home, then I believe you are talking about a whole new definition of the human being.

Butterfly Effect Sarah Lenz 2009

If you take away from food the wholeness of growing it or take away the joy and conviviality of preparing it in your own home, then I believe you are talking about a whole new definition of the human being.

Archive 2009-07-01 Sarah Lenz 2009