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
You shall never more have farms nor lands; you shall never more have joyance nor gladness; you shall rot forgotten in a hole as you had never done brave things for the King's grace.'
From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox
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
Why hast thou no more joyance on the damsels' glee to smile?
From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by Morris, William
