v.
- feel or show great joy.
▸archaic cause joy to.
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(rejoice in)
Brit. have (a specified strange or inappropriate name):
the guard rejoiced in the name of Blossom.
Derivative
- rejoicer n.
- rejoicing n. & adj.
- rejoicingly adv.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. rejoiss-, lengthened stem of rejoir, from re- + joir ‘experience joy’.