joyancy

English

Etymology

From joy +‎ -ancy.

Noun

joyancy (uncountable)

1. 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

• “joyancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.