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Rejoicing   /rɪdʒˈɔɪsɪŋ/   Listen
Rejoicing

noun
1.
A feeling of great happiness.
2.
The utterance of sounds expressing great joy.  Synonyms: exultation, jubilation.
adjective
1.
Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success.  Synonyms: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, triumphal, triumphant.  "A triumphal success" , "A triumphant shout"



Rejoice

verb
(past & past part. rejoiced; pres. part. rejoicing)
1.
Feel happiness or joy.  Synonym: joy.
2.
To express great joy.  Synonyms: exuberate, exult, jubilate, triumph.
3.
Be ecstatic with joy.  Synonyms: triumph, wallow.



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"Rejoicing" Quotes from Famous Books



... come of age. Perhaps I should have been glad to see such an occasion noticed at Greshamsbury with some more suitable signs of rejoicing." ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope

... exaggeratedly tender "Good-by, dear Billy!" ringing in his ears, to provoke irrepressible smiles. The pulse of a free life, where men lived instead of vegetating, was in his veins. His footstep gave forth a ringing sound from the pavement; he felt himself stalwart, alert, his brain rejoicing in its sense of power. It was even with no sense of guilt that he heard the church clocks striking twelve as he reached the house where his wife had been awaiting his return for ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various

... Oxford street. I told him I wanted to go to Tottenham Court road; but after making several fruitless attempts to pronounce the name, his own fertile genius had to supply my deficiency. He walked with me until the last unruly boy had disappeared, and then he sent me on my way rejoicing, after having spent some minutes in teaching me to articulate distinctly "Tottenham Court Road." It was already nightfall. I felt as if all danger were passed. I could not anticipate the check I was about ...
— The Felon's Track • Michael Doheny

... There was great rejoicing that evening at General Wood's headquarters over this splendid support given to America by ...
— The Conquest of America - A Romance of Disaster and Victory • Cleveland Moffett

... very scarce in the more northern posts, owing to the severity of the winter, and consequent shortness of summer. As the Company's servants are liable, on the shortest notice, to be sent from one end of the continent to another, they are quite accustomed to change of diet;—one year rejoicing in buffalo-humps and marrow-bones, in the prairies of the Saskatchewan, and the next devouring hung white-fish and scarce venison, in the sterile regions of Mackenzie River, or varying the meal with a little of that delectable substance often spoken of by ...
— Hudson Bay • R.M. Ballantyne


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