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/rɪdʒˈɔɪsɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Rejoice v. t.

To enjoy. (Obs.)

To give joy to; to make joyful; to gladden. "I me rejoysed of my liberty." "While she, great saint, rejoices heaven." "Were he (Cain) alive, it would rejoice his soul to see what mischief it had made."

Synonyms: To please; cheer; exhilarate; delight.

Rejoice v. i. (past & past part. rejoiced; pres. part. rejoicing) To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted. "O, rejoice beyond a common joy." "I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy."

Synonyms: Syn. To delight; joy; exult; triumph.

noun

Rejoicing n.

Joy; gladness; delight. "We should particularly express our rejoicing by love and charity to our neighbors."

The expression of joy or gladness. "The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous."

That which causes to rejoice; occasion of joy. "Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart."

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Etymology of 'Rejoicing'

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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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