killjoyism
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]killjoyism (uncountable)
- The behaviour of a killjoy.
- 2009, Marianne Elliott, When God Took Sides: Religion and Identity in Ireland - Unfinished History:
- This question was the topic of a very unsatisfactory Irish television debate in 1964, which paid too much attention to the Italianate statues and holy pictures of the nineteenth-century devotional revolution and the supposed infusion of Victorian values to explain the notorious killjoyism of Irish Catholicism.