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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

joyancy en · NOUN

Etymology

From joy + -ancy.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of joyance (“joy, enjoyment”).
    alt of joyance
    • One heard too, often enough, that in Irving there was visible a certain joyancy and frankness of triumph[.] 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences: