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overjoy, v.|əʊvəˈdʒɔɪ|
[over- 1 (c), 25, 27, 21.]
†1. To rejoice over (rendering L. supergaudēre).
1382Wyclif Ps. xxxiv. [xxxv.] 19 Ouerioȝe not to me that enemyen to me wickeli [Vulg. Non supergaudeant mihi].
2. trans. To fill with extreme joy; to transport with joy or gladness. (Now chiefly in pa. pple.)
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxiii. 1 Prosperitie maketh many so drunken, that they..overjoy themselves. 1678Shadwell Timon ii. Wks. 1720 II. 320 You over-joy me with your presence! 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 527 I..should be overjoyed to lend him a helping hand. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xii, I..have been perfectly charmed and overjoyed to-day, to find you just the same as ever.
b. intr. To rejoice too much.
1720Boston Fourf. State (1797) 208 We are apt to overjoy.
†3. To overcome or overwhelm with joy. Obs.
1631G. Webbe Quietn. (1657) 32 We shall..be so far master over our passions as not to overjoy our grief, nor overgrieve our joyes.
Hence overˈjoyed ppl. a., whence overˈjoyedness.
1634B. Jonson Love's Welc. Bolsover, The overjoyed master of the house. 1647W. Browne Polex. v. 4 His overjoyednesse, his transports, and extasies, at the sight of that beauty. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton xiii. (1840) 223 The poor overjoyed men were in haste to go back. |