rejoyce

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A form of rejoice — To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

verbrejoyce (third-person singular simple present rejoyces, present participle rejoycing, simple past and past participle rejoyced)

present singular third person rejoyces · participle present rejoycing · participle past rejoyced · past rejoyced

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of rejoice.

    […] we were driven a little to the Eaſt of the Molucca Iſlands, and about three Degrees Northward of the Line, as our Captain found by an Obſervation he took the 2d of May, at which time the Wind ceaſed, and it was a perfect Calm, whereat I was not a little rejoyced.

    1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 150–151
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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rejoyce,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rejoyce.

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