joyancy
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editjoyancy (uncountable)
- Alternative form of joyance (“joy, enjoyment”)
- 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences:
- One heard too, often enough, that in Irving there was visible a certain joyancy and frankness of triumph[.]
References
edit- “joyancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.