Joyance

For times now past and gone I spent in joyance of their love ❋ Unknown (2006)

They spent the night in joyance and harmony and telling tale after tale until morning dawned, when the Caliph laid an hundred gold pieces under the prayer-carpet and all taking leave of Ala al-Din, went their way. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Meanwhile, they brought Ma’aruf girls of the Brides of the Treasure,68 who smote on instruments of music and danced before him, and he passed that night in joyance and delight, ❋ Unknown (2006)

In this particular context, the word joyance itself becomes increasingly suspect: as a term that signifies not just being but showing: display, semblance, and, by implication, perception. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The Oxford English Dictionary notes that the Spenserian word joyance was, according to Samuel Johnson's own lexicographical judgment, obsolete by the eighteenth century. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Next to one gold Buddha sign read, "all of them show you a kind of joyance from the feeling of the men who have conquered the perplexity." ❋ Unknown (2009)

While one should think it true that in nature there indeed is "nothing melancholy," given such anti-anthropomorphic, anti-anthropocentric logic as the speaker has proposed, can sentient nature be said to be full of active "joyance" either? ❋ Unknown (2001)

The term "joyance" interestingly denotes as much an activity as a state of feeling or being, referring, unlike the common word "joy," both to feeling joy and to the action of showing it (OED). ❋ Unknown (2001)

Yet while the word "joyance" suggests an active role for nature's creatures15 and their "sweet influences," at the same time the term's use in these lines also reveals its human authors 'limits. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Given Coleridge's staunch rejection of just such artificial "conceit [s]" (23), his treatment of the bird's "joyance" generates troublesome contradictions indeed, contradictions that in turn point to significant problems of perceiving and representing animals (miring the "One Life" doctrine in something of an epistemological quandary). ❋ Unknown (2001)

Coleridge had recoined the word "joyance" in "Lines on an Autumnal Evening" (1796), and then chose to redeploy the term in "The Nightingale," with the reasonable expectation of the word's antique strangeness to his readers. ❋ Unknown (2001)

And every kind of joyance/that knight could e'er devise; ❋ George Henry Needler (1914)

Aslan Chief of the Sixty and bestowed upon him and his father sumptuous dresses of honour; and they abode in the enjoyment of all joys and joyance of life, till there came to them the Destroyer of delights and the Sunderer of societies. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Know, O my brothers and friends and companions all, that I abode some time, after my return from my fifth voyage, in great solace and satisfaction and mirth and merriment, joyance and enjoyment; and I forgot what I had suffered, seeing the great gain and profit ❋ Unknown (2006)

And they abode in all comfort and solace and joyance of life, till there came to them the Destroyer of delights and Severer of societies; the Depopulator of palaces and the Garnerer of graveyards. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So he did away her hymen and abode with her seven years in all joyance and solace and delight of life, till, one day of the days, he bethought himself of the forbidden door and said in himself, “Except there were therein treasures greater and grander than any I have seen, she had not forbidden me therefrom.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

So they set down in that site and they loosed the falcons and lynxes and dogs and caught great plenty of game, whereat they rejoiced and abode there some days, in all joyance of life and its delight. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Brynhild, and he deems all things he sees there to be worthy together, both her fairness, and the fair things she wrought: and therewith he goes into the hall, but has no more joyance in the games of the men folk. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thereafter they came to the hall of King Gunnar, and had good welcome at his hands, and great fires were made for them, and in great joyance they drank of the best of drink. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So good joyance had they there together, and each was leal to other; and their sport was in the arraying of their weapons, and the shafting of their arrows, and the flying of their falcons. ❋ Unknown (2008)