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REJOICING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The utterance of sounds expressing great joy
Synonyms:
exultation; jubilation; rejoicing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("rejoicing" is a kind of...):
utterance; vocalization (the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication)
Derivation:
rejoice (to express great joy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A feeling of great happiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("rejoicing" is a kind of...):
happiness (emotions experienced when in a state of well-being)
Derivation:
rejoice (feel happiness or joy)
rejoice (be ecstatic with joy)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
Example:
a triumphant shout
Synonyms:
exultant; exulting; jubilant; prideful; rejoicing; triumphal; triumphant
Classified under:
Similar:
elated (exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb rejoice
Context examples:
Elinor, confirmed in every pleasant hope, was all cheerfulness; rejoicing that in her letters to her mother, she had pursued her own judgment rather than her friend's, in making very light of the indisposition which delayed them at Cleveland; and almost fixing on the time when Marianne would be able to travel.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Price talked of her poor sister for a few minutes, but how to find anything to hold Susan's clothes, because Rebecca took away all the boxes and spoilt them, was much more in her thoughts: and as for Susan, now unexpectedly gratified in the first wish of her heart, and knowing nothing personally of those who had sinned, or of those who were sorrowing—if she could help rejoicing from beginning to end, it was as much as ought to be expected from human virtue at fourteen.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Elton looked as if he did not very well know what answer to make; which was exactly the case; for though very much gratified by the kind care of such a fair lady, and not liking to resist any advice of her's, he had not really the least inclination to give up the visit;—but Emma, too eager and busy in her own previous conceptions and views to hear him impartially, or see him with clear vision, was very well satisfied with his muttering acknowledgment of its being very cold, certainly very cold, and walked on, rejoicing in having extricated him from Randalls, and secured him the power of sending to inquire after Harriet every hour of the evening.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
This was enough to prove that her approbation need not be doubted: and Elizabeth, rejoicing that such an effusion was heard only by herself, soon went away.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Then there was great rejoicing made; but the horse would not eat, the bird would not sing, and the princess wept.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as they were.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The rooks cawed, and blither birds sang; but nothing was so merry or so musical as my own rejoicing heart.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Now, said Holmes, when the rejoicing lackey had disappeared, having secured the future, we can afford to be more lenient with the past.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Fanny, rejoicing in her escape, and proud of the ready wit that had procured it, wrote the next morning to Lucy, to request her company and her sister's, for some days, in Harley Street, as soon as Lady Middleton could spare them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
That he did not regard it as a desperate case, that he did not say a few hours must end it, was at first felt, beyond the hope of most; and the ecstasy of such a reprieve, the rejoicing, deep and silent, after a few fervent ejaculations of gratitude to Heaven had been offered, may be conceived.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
