joyance
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of joyance
1580–90; joy + -ance (coined by Spenser in his Faerie Queene )
Example Sentences
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Their joyance was not in their official capacity, for there were still troublous times in the Sandwich Islands.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the joyance of the Doles could not be extinguished by such considerations, for to them had been born a son christened Sanford Ballard Dole.
From Time Magazine Archive
With her there was no shadow Of failure nor despair, But only loving joyance.
From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss
Let joyance be, And there is God's sufficiency,— Such joy as only can abound Where the heart's comrade has been found.
From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss
You shall never more have farms nor lands; you shall never more have joyance nor gladness; you shall rot forgotten in a hole as you had never done brave things for the King's grace.'
From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox
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