rejoicingn.

Brit.

/rᵻˈdʒɔɪsɪŋ/, U.S.

/rəˈdʒɔɪsɪŋ/,

/riˈdʒɔɪsɪŋ/

Forms: see rejoice v. and -ing suffix¹; also late Middle English rejoyseinge, late Middle English roioysyng (transmission error), 1500s rejoseing (Scottish).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rejoice v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < rejoice v. + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of rejoice v., esp. the feeling and expression of joy; gladness, exultation.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [noun]

mirthOE

gladdingc1000

man-dreamOE

gleea1200

joyingc1300

rejoyingc1350

gloryingc1384

joya1400

mirthinga1400

rejoicingc1400

exultationc1425

rejoice1445

joyousitiea1450

solation1483

festivitya1500

rejoicement1523

jubilee1526

joyance1590

insolence1595

exiliency1618

exilience1626

exultancy1632

ovation1649

exultance1650

exulting1744

jubilance1864

jubilancy1894

c1400 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 398 Siþ boostinge and rejoysching of synne is one of þo grattest synnes of alle..hit semes þei ben moste synful..over alle oþer wicked men.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §626 If he repreue hym vncharitably of synne..thanne aperteneth that to the reioysynge [c1415 Lansd. rejoyseinge, c1425 Petworth roioysyng] of the deuel that euere hath ioye that men doon synne.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i. xv Men ought not to be glad ne take reioysshynge in the wordes of caytyf folke.

a1509 (?1468) Acct. Marriage Margaret of York in Archaeologia (1846) 31 331 (MED) At hir enter in at the gate..castinge out of flowers, rejoising of the people..precessions recevid hir.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. ii. f. 58^v Yet receaued they it with muche reioysinge.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. i. 94 My reioycing At nothing can be more.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 180 Great triumph and rejoycing was in Heav'n.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Hilaria The Hilaria were solemnized with great Pomp, and rejoycing.

1784 Unfortunate Sensibility II. 155 It has always appeared to me ridiculous for people who propagate the world with nothing but miserable dependents, to make any rejoicing at their birth.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 274 He heard the sounds of rejoicing from the distant camp of the allies.

1899 Harper's Weekly 28 Oct. 1086/2 Friends of peace and a quiet life..will find cause for rejoicing in the news that the latest-found gold-mines are already and unequivocally in British territory.

1938 Foreign Service Feb. 45/1 The submarine cable connecting Manila with Hongkong had been cut, so it was nearly a week before America heard of the victory amid wild rejoicing.

1997 Rail 12 Mar. 13/2 There was general rejoicing when Railtrack announced a £500,000 revamp of Parkway station to meet the growth in usage of the expanding international airport.

b. An instance, occasion, or expression of rejoicing; a festival, a celebration.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun]

festivityc1410

rejoicingc1475

festivala1500

gaudy1535

show of misrule1555

gaudc1571

wake1577

festal1581

jubilee1589

gaudy-nighta1616

gala night1762

bridewain1789

gala1800

bean-feast1805

holinighta1821

let-off1827

glorification1843

pesta1964

c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 203 Thou hast made clamore ayenst the large expenses and the myrth and reioysinges [a1500 Rawl. ioye; Fr. esbaudissemens] of the yonge noble men.

a1540 R. Barnes Lawfull for Priestes to marry Wiues in W. Tyndale et al. Wks. (1573) ii. 312/1 Men sit and laugh at them, & haue a great reioysing in them.

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. D1 Like little frosts that sometime threat the spring, To ad a more reioysing to the prime.

1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (ed. 3) 180 The Cardinal of Furstenbourgh..closed the publick Rejoicings for the conclusion of the Peace with the last Feu d'Artifice.

1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 200 The rejoycings upon this occasion were of short continuance.

1774 J. Bruce Let. in C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music (1776) I. 215 The sixth [instrument] is peculiarly an attendant on festivity and rejoicings.

1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. 79 The innocent rejoicings of the people of Paris on this change provoked the interference of an officer of the city guards.

1896 W. S. Gilbert Grand Duke i. 19 The rejoicings are on a scale of unusual liberality.

1949 S. Lewis God-seeker vii. 40 In this Yankee audience there was not so hot a rejoicing, such bitter mourning, as there would have been in the naked West.

1997 J. Bowker World Relig. 128/1 Yom Ha'atzmaut is a modern innovation—a rejoicing at the creation of a political state in 1948.

†2. A cause or source of rejoicing or gladness. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [noun] > cause or source of

rejoicingc1405

rejoicera1625

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 142 To myn herte it was a reioysynge [v.r. reioisschinge] To here thy voys.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1084 Latte us leve of thy mater and speke of som rejoysynge.

a1550 Now Fayre, Fayrest of Euery Fayre in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 29 Oure secrete reioysyng frome the son beme.

1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) viii. 20 Ȝe be, hairt, My hairtis reiosing.

1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xv. 16 Thy word was unto me, the ioy and reioycing of my heart.

1768 J. Nassau Mem. Two Young Gentlemen i. xi. 204 Reading the word of God, which will now be my principal food, and the rejoicing of my heart.

1793 G. Hill Instr. Present War to People of Great-Brit. 23 Those priniciples engraven on the heart of man, which we cherish..as the strength and the rejoicing of our heart.

Phrases

Rejoicing of the Law n. (usually with the) the Jewish festival at the conclusion of the Feast of Tabernacles (Succoth), celebrating the completion of the annual cycle of reading the Pentateuch; also with in, over, and other prepositions; = Simchat Torah n. [After post-classical Latin laetitia legis (1575 in the passage translated in quot. 1625) and its model post-biblical Hebrew śimḥat tōrā Simchat Torah n.]

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > Feast of Tabernacles, Succoth > [noun] > feast concluding

Rejoicing of the Law1625

1625 S. Purchas tr. Peregrination Beniamin in Pilgrimes II. ix. v. 1460 Both these [sc. the Babylonians and the Israelites] after a solemne manner, twice in the yeere powre forth their prayers together, to wit, vpon the day of the reioycing of the Law [L. die..laetitiae legis], and on the Festiuall day of the Law giuen.

1704 Dictionarium Sacrum seu Religiosum at Tabernacles The Feast of the Rejoycing of the Law, which is Celebrated the Day following, makes a part of the Feast of Tabernacles.

1807 S. Burder Orient. Customs II. 355 They read through the whole [sc. the five books of Moses] in the course of a year; finishing at the feast of Tabernacles, which they called ‘the rejoicing of the law’.

1861 J. T. Bannister Temples of Hebrews 390 Tisri..[Day] 23. The rejoicing for the law, a solemnity in memory of the covenant that the Lord made with the Hebrews.

1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 134 It was the Rejoicing of the Law, and the Sons of the Covenant had treated him to rum and currant cake.

1903 W. Rosenau Jewish Ceremonial Instit. v. 101 On the Day of Rejoicing Over the Law special inducements are held out to the younger members of the congregation to participate actively in the public service.

1953 T. H. Gaster Festivals Jewish Year vi. 100 Not impossibly, the custom of celebrating the Rejoicing in the Law as a wedding was inspired by the idea of sublimating to a more spiritual plane the..staging of a mock wedding at harvest festivals.

1962 B.-Z. Abrahams tr. Glückel of Hameln Life iii. 52 Her companions were not to return before Simchat Torah..Festival of the Rejoicing of the Law.

2000 S. M. Lowenstein Jewish Cultural Tapestry 87 Examples of such practices are the bar mitzvah ceremony, the rejoicing of the law of the ninth day of Tabernacles (Simchat Torah), and the tashlich ceremony.

Compounds

General attributive, as rejoicing day, rejoicing song, etc.

ΚΠ

1562 T. Sternhold et al. Whole Bk. Psalmes 374 Sing ye vnto the Lorde our God, a new reioysing song.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. i. 32 The fam'd Cassibulan..Made Luds-Towne with reioycing-Fires bright.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 85. ¶1 I met with several Fragments of it upon the next Rejoycing-day.

1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. 96 Sudden commotions of the mind are expressed, whether upon lamenting, or rejoicing occasions.

1760 T. Gray Let. 23 Jan. (1971) II. 657 The first rejoicing night he was terribly frighted, and thought the bonefire was made for him.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 214 You will..set him a-ringing his clapper, as if he were a town-bell on a rejoicing day.

1885 Academy 5 Sept. 147/1 In 1660 he preached a rejoicing sermon on the restoration of Charles II.

1923 H. Garland Bk. Amer. Indian x. 237 The past and the present fused together strangely in my mind as the ancient shining winds blew and the old rejoicing days came back.

1924 Travel Apr. 35/2 Pipers had trilled rejoicing airs on their peculiarly nerve-racking shepherds' pipes.

1966 Artibus Asiae 22 56 I offer as ornament for the neck of the great mother this beautiful white scarf very white and adorned with auspicious signs along with the singing of auspicious rejoicing songs.

2005 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 7 Apr. (National section) 1 This is a rejoicing day.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rejoicingadj.

Brit.

/rᵻˈdʒɔɪsɪŋ/, U.S.

/rəˈdʒɔɪsɪŋ/,

/riˈdʒɔɪsɪŋ/

Forms: see rejoice v. and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rejoice v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < rejoice v. + -ing suffix².

That rejoices or causes rejoicing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [adjective]

hightlyOE

joyousc1305

jubilosec1450

gratulant1471

rejoicingc1475

rejoiceful1538

exultativec1550

exultivec1550

cock-a-hoop1564

insolent1589

triumphant1597

elated1615

exultant1653

elate1702

exulting1757

jubilant1784

zip-a-dee-doo-dah1945

c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 172 (MED) Serge out the highnesse of the clere reioyssyng [Fr. rejoissante] sterre, that is to knowe the sterre of science.

1560 Bible (Geneva) Zeph. ii. 15 This is the reioycing citie that dwelt carelesse.

1700 M. Prior Carmen Sæculare 8 He..dictated a lasting Peace, To the rejoicing World below.

1748 D. Hume Philos. Ess. Human Understanding i. 10 To bring Light from Obscurity..must needs be delightful and rejoicing.

1798 S. T. Coleridge France i, in Fears & Solitude 14 Thou rising sun! thou blue rejoicing sky!

1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris (ed. 2) Pref. p. lxiv The shout of a redeemed and rejoicing people.

1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism I. i. 56 An easy and rejoicing hospitality..had reduced the fortunes of the house.

1913 J. Muir Story of my Boyhood v. 176 The moment he struck the ground he gave a cry of alarm and flew straight up like a rejoicing lark into the top of the same tree.

1993 M. Bowring Vets in Opposition (BNC) iii It [sc. a dog] was given an injection against shock and pain and it was taken away by a rejoicing owner.

2003 United Press Internat. (Nexis) 26 Mar. If and when we win this war, we should leave quickly, as though from a cursed place, lest we be thought of as a rejoicing people who dwelt carelessly.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rejoicing
释义	rejoicingn. Brit. /rᵻˈdʒɔɪsɪŋ/, U.S. /rəˈdʒɔɪsɪŋ/, /riˈdʒɔɪsɪŋ/ Forms: see rejoice v. and -ing suffix¹; also late Middle English rejoyseinge, late Middle English roioysyng (transmission error), 1500s rejoseing (Scottish). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rejoice v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < rejoice v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of rejoice v., esp. the feeling and expression of joy; gladness, exultation. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [noun] mirthOE gladdingc1000 man-dreamOE gleea1200 joyingc1300 rejoyingc1350 gloryingc1384 joya1400 mirthinga1400 rejoicingc1400 exultationc1425 rejoice1445 joyousitiea1450 solation1483 festivitya1500 rejoicement1523 jubilee1526 joyance1590 insolence1595 exiliency1618 exilience1626 exultancy1632 ovation1649 exultance1650 exulting1744 jubilance1864 jubilancy1894 c1400 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 398 Siþ boostinge and rejoysching of synne is one of þo grattest synnes of alle..hit semes þei ben moste synful..over alle oþer wicked men. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §626 If he repreue hym vncharitably of synne..thanne aperteneth that to the reioysynge [c1415 Lansd. rejoyseinge, c1425 Petworth roioysyng] of the deuel that euere hath ioye that men doon synne. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i. xv Men ought not to be glad ne take reioysshynge in the wordes of caytyf folke. a1509 (?1468) Acct. Marriage Margaret of York in Archaeologia (1846) 31 331 (MED) At hir enter in at the gate..castinge out of flowers, rejoising of the people..precessions recevid hir. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. ii. f. 58^v Yet receaued they it with muche reioysinge. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. i. 94 My reioycing At nothing can be more. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 180 Great triumph and rejoycing was in Heav'n. View more context for this quotation 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Hilaria The Hilaria were solemnized with great Pomp, and rejoycing. 1784 Unfortunate Sensibility II. 155 It has always appeared to me ridiculous for people who propagate the world with nothing but miserable dependents, to make any rejoicing at their birth. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 274 He heard the sounds of rejoicing from the distant camp of the allies. 1899 Harper's Weekly 28 Oct. 1086/2 Friends of peace and a quiet life..will find cause for rejoicing in the news that the latest-found gold-mines are already and unequivocally in British territory. 1938 Foreign Service Feb. 45/1 The submarine cable connecting Manila with Hongkong had been cut, so it was nearly a week before America heard of the victory amid wild rejoicing. 1997 Rail 12 Mar. 13/2 There was general rejoicing when Railtrack announced a £500,000 revamp of Parkway station to meet the growth in usage of the expanding international airport. b. An instance, occasion, or expression of rejoicing; a festival, a celebration. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] festivityc1410 rejoicingc1475 festivala1500 gaudy1535 show of misrule1555 gaudc1571 wake1577 festal1581 jubilee1589 gaudy-nighta1616 gala night1762 bridewain1789 gala1800 bean-feast1805 holinighta1821 let-off1827 glorification1843 pesta1964 c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 203 Thou hast made clamore ayenst the large expenses and the myrth and reioysinges [a1500 Rawl. ioye; Fr. esbaudissemens] of the yonge noble men. a1540 R. Barnes Lawfull for Priestes to marry Wiues in W. Tyndale et al. Wks. (1573) ii. 312/1 Men sit and laugh at them, & haue a great reioysing in them. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. D1 Like little frosts that sometime threat the spring, To ad a more reioysing to the prime. View more context for this quotation 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (ed. 3) 180 The Cardinal of Furstenbourgh..closed the publick Rejoicings for the conclusion of the Peace with the last Feu d'Artifice. 1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 200 The rejoycings upon this occasion were of short continuance. 1774 J. Bruce Let. in C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music (1776) I. 215 The sixth [instrument] is peculiarly an attendant on festivity and rejoicings. 1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. 79 The innocent rejoicings of the people of Paris on this change provoked the interference of an officer of the city guards. 1896 W. S. Gilbert Grand Duke i. 19 The rejoicings are on a scale of unusual liberality. 1949 S. Lewis God-seeker vii. 40 In this Yankee audience there was not so hot a rejoicing, such bitter mourning, as there would have been in the naked West. 1997 J. Bowker World Relig. 128/1 Yom Ha'atzmaut is a modern innovation—a rejoicing at the creation of a political state in 1948. †2. A cause or source of rejoicing or gladness. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [noun] > cause or source of rejoicingc1405 rejoicera1625 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 142 To myn herte it was a reioysynge [v.r. reioisschinge] To here thy voys. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1084 Latte us leve of thy mater and speke of som rejoysynge. a1550 Now Fayre, Fayrest of Euery Fayre in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 29 Oure secrete reioysyng frome the son beme. 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) viii. 20 Ȝe be, hairt, My hairtis reiosing. 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xv. 16 Thy word was unto me, the ioy and reioycing of my heart. 1768 J. Nassau Mem. Two Young Gentlemen i. xi. 204 Reading the word of God, which will now be my principal food, and the rejoicing of my heart. 1793 G. Hill Instr. Present War to People of Great-Brit. 23 Those priniciples engraven on the heart of man, which we cherish..as the strength and the rejoicing of our heart. Phrases Rejoicing of the Law n. (usually with the) the Jewish festival at the conclusion of the Feast of Tabernacles (Succoth), celebrating the completion of the annual cycle of reading the Pentateuch; also with in, over, and other prepositions; = Simchat Torah n. [After post-classical Latin laetitia legis (1575 in the passage translated in quot. 1625) and its model post-biblical Hebrew śimḥat tōrā Simchat Torah n.] ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > Feast of Tabernacles, Succoth > [noun] > feast concluding Rejoicing of the Law1625 1625 S. Purchas tr. Peregrination Beniamin in Pilgrimes II. ix. v. 1460 Both these [sc. the Babylonians and the Israelites] after a solemne manner, twice in the yeere powre forth their prayers together, to wit, vpon the day of the reioycing of the Law [L. die..laetitiae legis], and on the Festiuall day of the Law giuen. 1704 Dictionarium Sacrum seu Religiosum at Tabernacles The Feast of the Rejoycing of the Law, which is Celebrated the Day following, makes a part of the Feast of Tabernacles. 1807 S. Burder Orient. Customs II. 355 They read through the whole [sc. the five books of Moses] in the course of a year; finishing at the feast of Tabernacles, which they called ‘the rejoicing of the law’. 1861 J. T. Bannister Temples of Hebrews 390 Tisri..[Day] 23. The rejoicing for the law, a solemnity in memory of the covenant that the Lord made with the Hebrews. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 134 It was the Rejoicing of the Law, and the Sons of the Covenant had treated him to rum and currant cake. 1903 W. Rosenau Jewish Ceremonial Instit. v. 101 On the Day of Rejoicing Over the Law special inducements are held out to the younger members of the congregation to participate actively in the public service. 1953 T. H. Gaster Festivals Jewish Year vi. 100 Not impossibly, the custom of celebrating the Rejoicing in the Law as a wedding was inspired by the idea of sublimating to a more spiritual plane the..staging of a mock wedding at harvest festivals. 1962 B.-Z. Abrahams tr. Glückel of Hameln Life iii. 52 Her companions were not to return before Simchat Torah..Festival of the Rejoicing of the Law. 2000 S. M. Lowenstein Jewish Cultural Tapestry 87 Examples of such practices are the bar mitzvah ceremony, the rejoicing of the law of the ninth day of Tabernacles (Simchat Torah), and the tashlich ceremony. Compounds General attributive, as rejoicing day, rejoicing song, etc. ΚΠ 1562 T. Sternhold et al. Whole Bk. Psalmes 374 Sing ye vnto the Lorde our God, a new reioysing song. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. i. 32 The fam'd Cassibulan..Made Luds-Towne with reioycing-Fires bright. View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 85. ¶1 I met with several Fragments of it upon the next Rejoycing-day. 1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. 96 Sudden commotions of the mind are expressed, whether upon lamenting, or rejoicing occasions. 1760 T. Gray Let. 23 Jan. (1971) II. 657 The first rejoicing night he was terribly frighted, and thought the bonefire was made for him. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 214 You will..set him a-ringing his clapper, as if he were a town-bell on a rejoicing day. 1885 Academy 5 Sept. 147/1 In 1660 he preached a rejoicing sermon on the restoration of Charles II. 1923 H. Garland Bk. Amer. Indian x. 237 The past and the present fused together strangely in my mind as the ancient shining winds blew and the old rejoicing days came back. 1924 Travel Apr. 35/2 Pipers had trilled rejoicing airs on their peculiarly nerve-racking shepherds' pipes. 1966 Artibus Asiae 22 56 I offer as ornament for the neck of the great mother this beautiful white scarf very white and adorned with auspicious signs along with the singing of auspicious rejoicing songs. 2005 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 7 Apr. (National section) 1 This is a rejoicing day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rejoicingadj. Brit. /rᵻˈdʒɔɪsɪŋ/, U.S. /rəˈdʒɔɪsɪŋ/, /riˈdʒɔɪsɪŋ/ Forms: see rejoice v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rejoice v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < rejoice v. + -ing suffix². That rejoices or causes rejoicing. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [adjective] hightlyOE joyousc1305 jubilosec1450 gratulant1471 rejoicingc1475 rejoiceful1538 exultativec1550 exultivec1550 cock-a-hoop1564 insolent1589 triumphant1597 elated1615 exultant1653 elate1702 exulting1757 jubilant1784 zip-a-dee-doo-dah1945 c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 172 (MED) Serge out the highnesse of the clere reioyssyng [Fr. rejoissante] sterre, that is to knowe the sterre of science. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Zeph. ii. 15 This is the reioycing citie that dwelt carelesse. 1700 M. Prior Carmen Sæculare 8 He..dictated a lasting Peace, To the rejoicing World below. 1748 D. Hume Philos. Ess. Human Understanding i. 10 To bring Light from Obscurity..must needs be delightful and rejoicing. 1798 S. T. Coleridge France i, in Fears & Solitude 14 Thou rising sun! thou blue rejoicing sky! 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris (ed. 2) Pref. p. lxiv The shout of a redeemed and rejoicing people. 1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism I. i. 56 An easy and rejoicing hospitality..had reduced the fortunes of the house. 1913 J. Muir Story of my Boyhood v. 176 The moment he struck the ground he gave a cry of alarm and flew straight up like a rejoicing lark into the top of the same tree. 1993 M. Bowring Vets in Opposition (BNC) iii It [sc. a dog] was given an injection against shock and pain and it was taken away by a rejoicing owner. 2003 United Press Internat. (Nexis) 26 Mar. If and when we win this war, we should leave quickly, as though from a cursed place, lest we be thought of as a rejoicing people who dwelt carelessly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1400adj.c1475
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