joyward

English

Etymology

From joy +‎ -ward.

Adverb

joyward (not comparable)

1. (chiefly literary) Towards joy. [from 19th c.]
   • 1894 March 15 [1893 January 25], Bliss Carman, “The Pensioners”, in Low Tide on Grand Pré, 2nd edition, Stone and Kimball, page 32:

     Because her heart as our own heart, / Knowing the same wild upward stir, / Beats joyward by eternal laws, / We must arise and go with her;