a. rare. [f. JOY sb. + -SOME.] Fraught with joy, joyous, gladsome.

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1613–6.  W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. iii. Neere to the end of this all-joysome Grove.

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1855.  Singleton, Virgil, II. 103. Thee by heaven’s joysome light And breezes … I entreat.

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