joyancy
English
Etymology
From joy + -ancy.
Noun
joyancy (uncountable)
- Alternative form of joyance
- 1881 Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences
- One heard too, often enough, that in Irving there was visible a certain joyancy and frankness of triumph[.]
- 1881 Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for joyancy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)