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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rejoicing
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But even if he does, there may be little rejoicing.
▪ Each service of worship should be an occasion for praise and rejoicing.
▪ He provides the feast for rejoicing, as well as the fine clothes for the banquet guests to sit before him.
▪ It should have been an occasion for rejoicing.
▪ Nehru and the rest had no choice but to join in the general rejoicing.
▪ The rejoicing was not shared by the weary infantrymen who had just fought their way on to it.
▪ The sentence was carried out with great brutality, and his head was placed on London Bridge amidst general rejoicing.
▪ When I did become pregnant, it was amidst much rejoicing - the heir of Abraham was to be born.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rejoicing

Rejoicing \Re*joi"cing\ (-s?ng), n.

  1. Joy; gladness; delight.

    We should particularly express our rejoicing by love and charity to our neighbors.
    --R. Nelson.

  2. The expression of joy or gladness.

    The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous.
    --Ps. cxviii. 15.

  3. That which causes to rejoice; occasion of joy.

    Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
    --Ps. cxix. 111.

Rejoicing

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. 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.
--Ps. xxxi. 7.

Syn: Syn. To delight; joy; exult; triumph.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rejoicing

late 14c., verbal noun from rejoice (v.). Related: Rejoicingly.

Wiktionary
rejoicing

n. An act of showing joy. vb. (present participle of rejoice English)

WordNet
rejoicing

adj. joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout" [syn: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, triumphal, triumphant]

rejoicing
  1. n. a feeling of great happiness

  2. the utterance of sounds expressing great joy [syn: exultation, jubilation]

Wikipedia
Rejoicing (album)

Rejoicing is an album by the guitarist Pat Metheny that was released in 1984 by ECM. It features the guitarist in a trio with Charlie Haden on bass and Billy Higgins on drums, playing a mixture of originals and compositions by Ornette Coleman.

Usage examples of "rejoicing".

Transfigured from a nearly empty, thinly manned anachronism into the seat of the Beast Despotism, it incorporated all those rejoicing at its capture as members of the new community of the Nation.

All at once their rejoicings were silenced by a double sheet of fire that leaped from both banks of the river at once.

He sat back watching the hugging and rejoicing, then slowly turned to leave, he felt a tugging on his ear and chuckled, Bitsy fluttered around his head and giggling kissed him on the cheek.

Via Filangeri the Carabineers grumbled and swore at the hard fate which kept them out of Rome at a time of public rejoicing.

That is ignobly passionate chiaroscuro, rejoicing in darkness rather than light.

Dieter replied, and that evening he was on his way out of Russia, rejoicing with every clackety turn of the train wheels.

It was a Wednesday half-holiday late in March, a spring day glorious in amber light, dazzling white clouds and the intensest blue, casting a powder of wonderful green hither and thither among the trees and rousing all the birds to tumultuous rejoicings, a rousing day, a clamatory insistent day, a veritable herald of summer.

Then Gwawl the son of Clud set out to the feast that was prepared for him, and he came to the palace, and was received there with rejoicing.

Amongst the pleasures and popular delectations, which wandered hither and thither, you might see the pompe of the goddesse triumphantly march forward : The woman attired in white vestiments, and rejoicing, in that they bare garlands and flowers upon their heads, bedspread the waies with hearbes, which they bare in their aprons, where this regall and devout procession should passe : Other caried glasses on their backes, to testifie obeisance to the goddess which came after.

And so great is it in power and beauty that it remains the allurer, all things of the universe depending from it and rejoicing to hold their trace of it and through that to seek their good.

We have already seen how this illustrates the immemorial connection between material feasting and religious rejoicing.

The amiable old man ran away from, the noisy pleasures which no longer suited his age, and he was going to spend in peace the few days which the public rejoicings would have rendered unpleasant for him in Venice.

At a little distance, Hou the Unstable, while rejoicing in the victory of the tribe, declared that such fortune was not to be trusted and that therefore the best thing to do would be that they should all run away into the woods before it turned against them.

Laughing Water Went rejoicing from the wigwam, With Nokomis, old and wrinkled, And they called the women round them, Called the young men and the maidens, To the harvest of the cornfields, To the husking of the maize-ear.

Nut Kut, the great black elephant who had been trapped in these same Vindha Hills only a few years ago, was rejoicing in freedom again.