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joyancy

joyancy is the alternative form 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

Origin of joyancy

From joy + -ancy.

Questions about joyancy

What is joyancy the alternative form of?
Joyancy is the alternative form of joyance.

Words near joyancy in the dictionary

  1. Joya
  2. Joyal
  3. Joyals
  4. joyance
  5. joyances
  6. joyancy
  7. joyant
  8. joyants
  9. Joyas
  10. joybait
  11. joybaited

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