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rejoiced

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rejoice \Re*joice"\ (r[-e]*jois"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rejoiced (-joist"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rejoicing (-joi"s?ng).] [OE. rejoissen, OF. resjouir, resjoir, F. r['e]jouir; pref. re- re- + OF. esjouir, esjoir, F. ['e]jouir, to rejoice; pref. es- (L. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: rejoice )

Usage examples of rejoiced.

When, at the house of that criminal Ananias, he had rejoiced at the rich man’s punishment in hell and clapped his hands and shouted, “Served him right!

The Caesar immediately sent his captives to the court of Constantius, who, accepting them as a valuable present, ^81 rejoiced in the opportunity of adding so many heroes to the choicest troops of his domestic guards.

Beyond that line, the dukes or republics of Amalfi ^5 and Naples, who had never forfeited their voluntary allegiance, rejoiced in the neighborhood of their lawful sovereign.

The soldiers and the people rejoiced in a revolution which was not stained even with the blood of the guilty.

They assembled in arms, repelled the invaders, and rejoiced in the important discovery of their own strength.

And as the son of Mary rejoiced in everything around him, keeping his mind fixed on God, the sweet smell of newly baked bread suddenly hit his nostrils.

He rejoiced with his whole body, his whole soul-deeply, with the very roots of his being, like a thirsty tree that is watered.

At any other time the two fishermen would have rejoiced to feel their nets so heavy, but today their minds were far away, and they did not speak.

She rejoiced solely in the sound of his voice: the voice told her everything.

And now I was head in the School of Rhetoric, whereat I rejoiced proudly, and became inflated with arrogance, though more sedate, O Lord, as Thou knowest, and altogether removed from the subvertings of those "subverters"

In this manner was I confounded and converted, and I rejoiced, O my God, that the one Church, the body of Thine only Son (wherein the name of Christ had been set upon me when an infant), did not appreciate these infantile trifles, nor maintained, in her sound doctrine, any tenet that would confine Thee, the Creator of all, in space-though ever so great and wide, yet bounded on all sides by the restraints of a human form.

Adeline understood this conduct, and she rejoiced that she was spared the anguish of meeting her as an enemy, whom she had once considered as a friend.

It was evening when they came within view of the lake, which the travellers rejoiced to see, for the storm so long threatened was now fast approaching.

But La Luc, to whom terror had suggested the utmost possible evil, now rejoiced to hear her speak.

Adeline and Clara, who anxiously watched his looks, rejoiced in their amendment.