jouisance
English
Noun
jouisance (uncountable)
- Obsolete spelling of jouissance
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Aegloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809:
- Colin, my dear, when shall it please thee sing,
As thou wert wont, songs of some jouisance?
- Colin, my dear, when shall it please thee sing,
- 1581, George Peele, The Arraignment of Paris
- And for our country gods, I dare be bold,
They make such cheer, your presence to behold,
Such jouisance, such mirth, and merriment […]
- And for our country gods, I dare be bold,
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