Rejoice

//ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪs// verb

verb ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy. intransitive

    "Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye ; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs to be delightful and rejoicing."

  2. 2
    to express great joy wordnet
  3. 3
    To have (someone) as a lover or spouse; to enjoy sexually. obsolete, transitive

    "ye that are a knyghte wyueles that ye wyl not loue some mayden or gentylwoman /[…]/ but hit is noysed that ye loue quene Gueneuer / and that she hath ordeyned by enchauntement that ye shal neuer loue none other / but her / ne none other damoysel ne lady shall reioyse you"

  4. 4
    feel happiness or joy wordnet
  5. 5
    To make happy, exhilarate. transitive

    "Were he [Cain] alive, it would rejoice his soul to see what mischief it had made."

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  1. 6
    be ecstatic with joy wordnet
  2. 7
    To enjoy. obsolete

    "c. 1449–1455, Reginald Peacock, Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie his brother Constans next aftir him rejoiced the same west-parti."

Synonyms

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exultgladdendelightadoreanimateappreciate

Antonyms

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be sad

Example

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"Can a being create the fifty billion galaxies, each with one hundred billion stars, then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?"

Etymology

From Middle English rejoicen, rejoisen, from Old French resjoir. Doublet of rejoy. Compare French réjouir; Spanish regocijar; Portuguese regozijar; Italian gioire

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