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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REJOIC'ING, ppr. Animating with gladness; exhilarating; feeling joy.
REJOIC'ING, ppr. Animating with gladness; exhilarating; feeling joy.
REJOIC'ING, n.
1. The act of expressing joy and gladness.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous. Psalms 118.
2. The subject of joy.
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart. Psalms 119.
3. The experience of joy. Galatians 6.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout" [syn: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant] n
1: a feeling of great happiness
2: the utterance of sounds expressing great joy [syn: exultation, rejoicing, jubilation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. the action of one that rejoices 2. an instance, occasion, or expression of joy ; festivity

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rejoicing Re*joi"cing (-s?ng), n. 1. Joy; gladness; delight. We should particularly express our rejoicing by love and charity to our neighbors. --R. Nelson. 2. The expression of joy or gladness. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous. --Ps. cxviii. 15. 3. That which causes to rejoice; occasion of joy. Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart. --Ps. cxix. 111.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rejoice Re*joice" (r[-e]*jois"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rejoiced (-joist"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rejoicing (-joi"s?ng).] [OE. rejoissen, OF. resjouir, resjoir, F. r['e]jouir; pref. re- re- + OF, esjouir, esjoir, F. ['e]jouir, to rejoice; pref. es- (L. ex-) + OF. jouir, joir, F. jouir, from L. gaudere to rejoice. See Joy.] To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted. ``O, rejoice beyond a common joy.'' --Shak. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. --Ps. xxxi. 7. Syn: To delight; joy; exult; triumph.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Festivity.

Moby Thesaurus

anniversaries, buxom, celebrating, celebration, ceremony, commemoration, delighting, dressing ship, elate, elated, exultant, exulting, fanfare, fanfaronade, festivity, flourish of trumpets, flushed, frivolous, gleeful, hilarious, holiday, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, jubilee, laughter-loving, marking the occasion, memorialization, memory, merry, mirth-loving, mirthful, observance, ovation, religious rites, remembrance, revel, risible, rite, ritual observance, salute, salvo, solemn observance, solemnization, testimonial, testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, toast, tribute, triumph