joyance
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of joyance
1580–90; joy + -ance (coined by Spenser in his Faerie Queene )
Example Sentences
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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
Their joyance was not in their official capacity, for there were still troublous times in the Sandwich Islands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet shrink I, trembling and afraid, From searching glances inward thrown; What deep foundation have I laid, For any joyance, not my own?
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
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 Bliss Carman
With her there was no shadow Of failure nor despair, But only loving joyance.
From Later Poems by Bliss Carman
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