The Collaborative International Dictionary
Joyance \Joy"ance\, n. [OF. joiance.]
Enjoyment; gayety; festivity; joyfulness.
--Spenser.
Some days of joyance are decreed to all.
--Byron.
From what hid fountains doth thy joyance flow?
--Trench.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic poetic English) enjoyment, joy, delight.
Usage examples of "joyance".
These seekers of the earthy and very effable delights of his house quickly became a nuisance, and Bardo had to begin issuing invitations to his joyances.
I, and with great joyance, cleave me thine impish mazzard and split thee to thy beastly chine.
As at any joyance, he delivered an account of the remembrancing art, and he speculated upon the nature of the Elder Eddas.
Thus then the Houses of the Mark held their High-tide of Returning under the Wolfing Roof with none to blame them or make them afraid: and the moon rose and the summer night wore on towards dawn, and within the Roof and without was there feasting and singing and harping and the voice of abundant joyance: for without the Roof feasted the thralls and the strangers, and the Roman war-captives.