Joyance vs Joyous - What's the difference?
joyance | joyous |
(archaic, poetic) Enjoyment, joy, delight.
* 1885 , , The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Vol. 5
*1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 134:
*:And on a great blooming laurel-bush the mocking-bird sang, heedless of the darkness to come, heedless of the day gone by, possessed by its fervor of music that made gloom light and all life a joyance [...].
As a noun joyance
is (archaic|poetic) enjoyment, joy, delight.As an adjective joyous is
full of joy; happy.joyance
English
Noun
(-)- ...for excess of joyance never knew
- How went the day and how it came again.