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joyous, a.|ˈdʒɔɪəs|
Forms: 4–7 ioyous, (5 -uss, -eos, -eus, -eux, -ouse), 5–6 ioyus, -ouse, (6 -ws, -eous), 7– joyous.
[ME. a. AF. joyous = OF. joios, -eus, F. joyeux, f. joie joy n.]
1. Having a joyful nature or mood; full of glad feeling; blithe, gladsome, buoyant; also, expressive of, or characterized by, joy; = joyful 1, 2.
c1315Shoreham 120 More encheyson hadde oure levedy Ioyous and blythe for to be. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 240 The good odure..makyth the herte oppyn and [io]youse. c1485Digby Myst. iv. 1028 Be Ioyeos now of mynd! 1560Bible (Genev.) Isa. xxii. 2 A citie full of bruit, a ioyous citie. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 515 The Earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each Hill; Joyous the Birds. 1711Addison Spect. No. 128 ⁋1 Women in their Nature are much more gay and joyous than Men. 1753J. Hawkesworth Adventurer 20 Oct. 177, I had now ascended another scale in the climax; and was acknowledged..to be a Joyous Spirit [see also jessamy n. 4]. 1827Hare Guesses (1859) 241 A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart. 1848C. Brontë J. Eyre xvii. 168 A joyous stir was now audible in the hall.
†b. Const. of or with clause. Obs.
c1305St. Swithin 36 in E.E.P. (1862) 44 Alle men þat him iknewe ioyous þerof were. c1477Caxton Jason 50 b, I am right ioyous of thy wele and worship. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 84 He was ioyous that power and princely estate was now to him happened. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. v. 70 Wander we to see thy honest sonne, Who will of thy arriuall be full ioyous. 1599― Hen. V, v. ii. 9 Right ioyous are we to behold your face.
2. Of things, events, etc.: Inspiring or productive of joy; gladdening, cheerful; = joyful 3.
c1450Holland Howlat 753 Thow ioyuss fleiss of Gedion. 1475Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 70 It was the ioieust and plesaunt sighte that ever..Lisander had see. 1526Tindale Heb. xii. 11 No manner learnynge for the present tyme semeth to be ioyeous but greveous. c1630Milton Passion 3 Of..joyous news of heavenly Infant's birth, My muse with Angels did divide to sing. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 43 Every return of that joyous season [harvest]. 1864Kirk Chas. Bold I. ii. i. 450 A new sovereign, on the occasion of his ‘joyous entry’, as his first visit to a place after his accession was called.
3. Comb.
1820Shelley Hymn to Mercury xxi, Joyous-minded Hermes from the glen Drew the fat spoils. |