rejoice

[re·joice]

To rejoice is to be incredibly happy, or to express your incredible happiness. If you just won millions in the lottery, you might rejoice by screaming at the top of your lungs.

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To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted.

Verb
to express great joy; "Who cannot exult in Spring?"

Verb
feel happiness or joy

Verb
be ecstatic with joy


v. i.
To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted.

v. t.
To enjoy.

v. t.
To give joy to; to make joyful; to gladden.

n.
The act of rejoicing.


Rejoice

Re*joice" (r?-jois"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rejoced (-joist"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rejoicing (-joi"s?ng).] [OE.rejoissen, OF. resjouir, resjoir, F. r'82jouir; pref. re- re- + OF, esjouir, esjoir, F. jouirr, to rejoice; pref. es- (L. ex-) + OF. jouir, joir, F. jouir, from L. gaudere to rejoice. See Joy.] To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted. "O, rejoice beyond a common joy." Shak.
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy.
Syn. To delight; joy; exult; triumph.

Rejoice

Re*joice", v. t. 1. To enjoy. [Obs.] Bp. Peacock. 2. To give joi 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.
Syn. -- To please; cheer; exhilarate; delight.

Rejoice

Re*joice", n. The act of rejoicing. Sir T. Browne.

To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted.

To enjoy.

The act of rejoicing.

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Usage Examples

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice.

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

It is no use to grumble and complain It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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Other Usage Examples

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

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