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joyances

joyances is the plural of joyance.

Meaning of joyance

Noun

joyance (countable and uncountable, plural joyances)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Enjoyment, joy, delight.
    • So forth they marchen in this goodly fort, / To take the ſolace of the open aire, / And in freſh flowring fields themſelues to ſport; / Emongſt the reſt rode that falſe Lady faire, / The foule Dueſsa, next vnto the chaire / Of proud Lucifer’, as one of the traine: / But that good knight would not...1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza XXXVII, page 55

Questions about joyances

What is joyances the plural of?
Joyances is the plural of joyance.

Words near joyances in the dictionary

  1. joy-to-stuff ratios
  2. Joya
  3. Joyal
  4. Joyals
  5. joyance
  6. joyances
  7. joyancy
  8. joyant
  9. joyants
  10. Joyas
  11. joybait

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