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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rejoice" Quotes from Famous Books

... an ideal. It plasters its walls with busts of Walt Whitman and Blake; it hangs bad reproductions of Botticelli round the walls; it sings songs to Freedom; it rhapsodises about Beethoven and Bach. The children of the Crank Schools are, I rejoice to say, not cranks. They leave the boredom of Bach and seek the jazz record on the gramophone; they ignore the pictures of Whitman and Blake and study The Picture Show or Funny Bits. Many of them think more highly of Charlie Chaplin than ...

— A Dominie in Doubt • A. S. Neill

... just spoken. Here dwell they, to the number of eight or ten thousand, in a state of complete isolation from the Christian myriads which surround them, inhabiting flats, and in many cases, single apartments, by whole families; and appearing to rejoice in the filth and neglect to which the Christians have consigned them. The streets in their suburb are all narrow and mean, and devoid of ornament; the stalls, with the articles which the chapmen expose upon them, ...

— Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II • G. R. Gleig

... rejoice over your coming, and over the news which you bring? The will of the gods no longer is that we shall do the work for which our lord Chaltzantzin destined us; therefore are we free to set aside the custom ...

— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier

... in high spirits. He had made such a discovery, found such treasures,— been in the very place where of all others a rat might rejoice ...

— The Rambles of a Rat • A. L. O. E.

... created.[236] There is equally no doubt that for the nineteenth they are insufficient.[237] The main business of a critic is to try to answer two questions: first why did the epoch produce such art, and why did it rejoice in it?—secondly, has this art any real worth beyond a documentary value for the students of one defined historical period; has it enduring qualities of originality, strength, beauty, and inspiration? To the first of these questions I have already ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds

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