Definition of "joysome" []

• Joyous (adjective)

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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."
• "Should drift across my heart while joysome memories rise"
• "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."