joyance

Example Sentences

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Their joyance was not in their official capacity, for there were still troublous times in the Sandwich Islands.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the joyance of the Doles could not be extinguished by such considerations, for to them had been born a son christened Sanford Ballard Dole.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hopefulness of youth, its rosy visions, its smiling dreams, all sparkled in his blight blue eye, in the glad, free, ringing joyance of his deep rich voice, his cloudless smiles.

From The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History by Aguilar, Grace

Hither, O fragrant of Tmolus the Golden, Come with the voice of timbrel and drum; Let the cry of your joyance uplift and embolden The God of the joy-cry; O Bacchanals, come!

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

Then in my house I am a king, Great joyance and no sorrowing, Happier than you can say or sing.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn