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/rɪdʒˈɔɪs/ 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

Rejoice n. The act of rejoicing.

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... Unflinchingly they had weathered their winter of despair. It was eminently fitting that happiness should now flood their loyal souls. Among the large assemblage that had gathered to witness the welding of that holy bond, there was not one person who did not rejoice with Grace and Tom. ...

— Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer • Jessie Graham Flower

... dear fellow. No more introductions to-night, please. I've just suffered torture from an unspeakable youth from Aberdeen, who expected me to rejoice with him because Oxford is at last recognising the 'exeestence of a metapheesical principle in the ...

— Audrey Craven • May Sinclair

... So we find him writing to her from Geneva, in such terms as these:—"You write that your desire is earnest to see me. Dear sister, if I should express the thirst and languor which I have had for your presence, I should appear to pass measure.... Yea, I weep and rejoice in remembrance of you; but that would evanish by the comfort of your presence, which I assure you is so dear to me, that if the charge of this little flock here, gathered together in Christ's name, did not impede me, my coming should prevent ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... sooner does M. Bartholdi's beneficent matron smile upon you, than you cast off the chains of an ancient slavery. You forget in a moment the years which you have misspent under the intolerable burden of a monarch. Be you Pole or Russ, Briton or Ruthenian, you rejoice at the mere sight of this marvel, in a new hope, in a boundless ambition. Unconscious of what awaits you, you surrender yourself so eagerly to the sway of sentiment that you are unable to observe the perfections of your idol. ...

— American Sketches - 1908 • Charles Whibley

... king goes down The way of kings. Yet may no free man's voice, For stern compassion and deep awe, rejoice That one sign more is given against the crown, That one more head those dark red waters drown Which rise round thrones whose trembling equipoise Is propped on sand and bloodshed and such toys As human hearts ...

— Sonnets, and Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650) • Algernon Charles Swinburne

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