Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing or inspiring gladness; joyful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Causing joyfulness.
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- adjective archaic
joyous
Etymologies
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Examples
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For there is nothing so joysome to record as the brightening story of a soul coming to its real birth from the travail of its sin and struggle.
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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Should drift across my heart while joysome memories rise
The Path of Dreams Poems Leigh Gordon Giltner
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It was a joy to come on a home institution so far from home -- joysome, but a trifle disconcerting too, because all the keepers had died or gone on strike or something; and the lunatics, some of them being in uniform and some in civilian dress, were leaping from crag to crag, uttering maniacal shrieks.
Europe Revised 1910
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"So -- so -- so joysome to see Boston folk," she stammered.
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A joysome hour passed in "picnicking" the lunch, then Sally rang for the maid to remove the dishes.
The Blue Birds' Winter Nest Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900
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If I colde sing that angell songe, how joysome I sholde bee!
A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872
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This word, like many other adjectives in _-some_, is now less common than it was in Elizabethan English: many such adjectives are obsolete, _e. g._ laboursome, joysome, quietsome, etc. (see Trench's
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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