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Also, in recent use (1891–), unjoyously adv.

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1645.  Milton, Tetrach., 62. It must needs bee both unjoyous and injurious to any perceaving person so detain’d.

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1712.  Steele, Spect., No. 406, ¶ 8. The wat’ry Length of these unjoyous Moors.

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1797.  Monthly Mag., III. 536/1. The aspect of the new moon was only unjoyous to those who owed money.

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1829.  Lytton, Devereux, II. ii. A coarse, yet not unjoyous, spirit of reckless debauchery.

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1857.  Hawthorne, Eng. Note-bks. (1870), II. 216. All looking unjoyous, and as if they had no home nor parents’ love.

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