Meaning of Overjoy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Very great joy.
2. Excessive joy.

Equivalents

Examples

“to salute my king / With ruder terms, such as my wit affords / And over-joy of heart doth minister”

“a. 1631, John Donne, Letter to Robert Karre in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, London: Richard Marriot, 1651, p. 299, I beginne to bee past hope of dying: And I feele that a little ragge of Monte Magor, which I read last time I was in your Chamber, hath wrought prophetically upon mee, which is, that Death came so fast towards mee, that the over-joy of that recovered mee.”

“1835, William Wordsworth, “The Russian Fugitive” in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, p. 143, Amazement rose to pain, / and over-joy produced a fear / Of something void and vain,”

“The katydids express their overjoy / Down in knee-high maturing August grasses;”

“Restraint of the organs of sense, on which success in study and discipline depends, can be enforced by abandoning lust, anger, greed, vanity (māna), haughtiness (mada) and overjoy (harṣa).”

“The knowledge that some are deprived tempers overjoy or overdesire.”

“The emotional extremes of overexcitement, overjoy, depression, and anxiety are all blockages in the Message Center.”

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