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† jouisance, -issance Obs.
Forms: 5 ioys-, 6 ioyss-, ioyis-, iouiss-, iouys(s)-, 6–7 iouis-, 7 jouis(s)-, jovyss-, 7–8 arch. jovis-; 5–6 -aunce, 6–8 -ance.
[a. late OF. jouissance, f. jouissant, pr. pple. of jouir to enjoy: see -ance. (Exemplified in Fr. only from 1534 by Hatz.-Darm.) The spelling jovi-, a misreading of ioui-, has been erroneously introduced by editors into Spenser and some other 16–17th c. texts.]
1. The possession and use of something affording advantage: = enjoyment 1.
1483Caxton G. de la Tour E vj b, He may not be peasyble to the reame ne haue the ioysaunce of it. 1539St. Papers Hen. VIII, I. 599 He concluded that the Duk of Sax shuld have the joyssance of all them. 1603Florio Montaigne i. xxxviii. (1632) 122 In full jouyssance of them.
2. Pleasure, delight (= enjoyment 2); merriment, mirth, festivity.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 25 To see those folkes make such iouysaunce. Ibid. Nov. 2 When shall it please thee sing..songs of some iouisaunce? 1594Carew Tasso (1881) 119 For such their comming, mirth and iouyssance. 1597Pilgr. Parnass. iv. 489 Till you have tasted of this ioyisance. 1633J. Done Hist. Septuagint 126 All the Company betook them to make cheare and to jouisance. 1657Reeve God's Plea 98 We cannot abdicate wonted jovisances. 1750Dodd Poems (1767) 45 They rioted in jovisaunce secure. |