joyance

joyance

English

Etymology

Apparently coined by Edmund Spenser, from joy +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔɪəns/

Noun

joyance (countable and uncountable, plural joyances)

1. (archaic, poetic) Enjoyment, joy, delight.
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 5

     ...for excess of joyance never knew

     How went the day and how it came again.

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 134:

     And on a great blooming laurel-bush the mocking-bird sang, heedless of the darkness to come, heedless of the day gone by, possessed by its fervor of music that made gloom light and all life a joyance [...].

Anagrams

• Jayceon, Jayoncé, Joycean