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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joy +‎ -some

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Examples

  • 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

  • Should drift across my heart while joysome memories rise

    The Path of Dreams Poems Leigh Gordon Giltner

  • 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

  • "So -- so -- so joysome to see Boston folk," she stammered.

    Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade 1903

  • 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

  • If I colde sing that angell songe, how joysome I sholde bee!

    A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872

  • 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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