overjoyous

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1. rareExtremely happy or celebratory; overjoyed.

   Sir John when he heard it was over-joyous.

   1848, George Payne Rainsford James, Beauchamp: Or, The Error, Volume 3, page 209

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   Now and then a note from the bugle of some overjoyous youths as he entered the forest, brought a frown upon the brow of old Congo.

   1834, William Alexander Caruthers, The Cavaliers of Virginia, page 146

   I, Aurora Leigh, was born To make my father sadder, and myself Not overjoyous, truly.

   1857, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, First Book

   Sometimes there was a celebration. One or two members of the little community were inclined to become a trifle over joyous too often for their health.

   1900, Stewart Edward White, chapter 19, in The Westerners