revelling

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   boisterous or festive celebration, especially with drinking; revelry

   The revelling continued in the streets until dawn.

2. 2
   noun

   a noisy celebration or bout of merrymaking

   The chronicler condemned the court's nightly revellings.

The noun is the gerund of revel, with British double-l spelling. Revel came through Old French reveler ("make merry; behave riotously"), ultimately related to Latin rebellare ("rebel"); its sense shifted from disorder to boisterous celebration.

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