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Joy with its inhibitions surgically removed.
means To take loud, abandoned delight in something — dancing, feasting, or carrying on with unrestrained pleasure.
from From Old French 'reveler' (to riot, rebel, make merry), tracing back to Latin 'rebellare' — literally 'to rebel' or 'wage war again.' The link between partying and rebellion isn't poetic license: medieval revelry was loud, disorderly, and often literally defiant of curfews and authority, so the word for uprising slid naturally into the word for uproarious fun.
- etymology
- from latin rebellare, literally to rebel
- grammar quirk
- always needs in, you revel in something
- vs celebrate
- celebrate is polite, revel loses its shoes