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To rejoice is to feel great happiness or joy, or to take great pleasure in something.

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When you feel great pleasure after you have had a baby, this is an example of a time where you rejoice.

See rejoice in Webster's New World College Dictionary

to be glad, happy, or delighted; be full of joy: often with at or in

Origin: ME rejoissen < inflectional stem of OFr rejoïr < re-, again + joïr, to be glad < VL *gaudire, for L gaudere, to rejoice: see joy

transitive verb

to make glad; delight

Related Forms:

rejoicingly adverb

See rejoice in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb re·joiced, re·joic·ing, re·joic·es

verb, intransitive

To feel joyful; be delighted: rejoiced at the news; rejoiced in her friend's good fortune.

verb, transitive

To fill with joy; gladden.

Phrasal Verb: rejoice in To have or possess: rejoices in a keen mind.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English rejoicen

Origin: , from Old French rejoir, rejoiss-

Origin: : re-, re-

Origin: + joir, to be joyful (from Vulgar Latin *gaudīre, from Latin gaudēre; see gāu- in Indo-European roots)

Related Forms:

re·joicˈer noun

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