Overjoy

The prospect of writing three exams in a row without a break does not overjoy me.

This salutation ouerioyes my heart.

In overjoying me, you are grown sad;

If my Letter pleas'd you, your's overjoy'd me; and I expect impatiently your kind Viſit: […]

Ah, child, thou art but half thy darling mother’s; / Hers couldst thou wholly be, / My light in thee would outglow all in others; / She would relive to me. / But niggard Nature’s trick of birth / Bars, lest she overjoy, / Renewal of the loved on earth / Save with alloy.

1598, John Wilbye, The First Set of English Madrigals, London: Thomas Este, Madrigal , Your deeds my hart surchargd with ouerioying:

it is hard not to ouer-ioy in a sudden prosperitie, and, to vse happinesse is no lesse difficult, then to forbeare it

1685, Thomas Manton, “A Description of the True Circumcision” in Several Discourses Tending to Promote Peace and Holiness among Christians, London: Jonathan Robinson, p. 113, That he doth not over-joy in worldly Comforts, nor over-grieve for worldly Losses.

to salute my king / With ruder terms, such as my wit affords / And over-joy of heart doth minister

a. 1631, John Donne, Letter to Robert Karre in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, London: Richard Marriot, 1651, p. 299, I beginne to bee past hope of dying: And I feele that a little ragge of Monte Magor, which I read last time I was in your Chamber, hath wrought prophetically upon mee, which is, that Death came so fast towards mee, that the over-joy of that recovered mee.