Rejoicing

Definitions

An act of showing joy.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“There was much rejoicing when the good news finally arrived.”

“But what are your foot-ploddings, your ambulating rejoicings, to the free etherealities which our courser's light⟳ bound and exultant spurnings of the dull earth bring⟳ to the spirit!”

“There were some unofficial local rejoicings, but none of the elaborate junketings which marked the birth of earlier railways. The company had little cash to spend⟳ on sumptuous cold collations, and the like⟳.”

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