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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overjoy .
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Examples
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I don’t see why liberals’ fear of Palin overjoys right-wingers – do you look forward to the harm she would cause to us?
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But a cow looks to see what she is doing; her eyes are open every minute, and it overjoys her to take a side hook at you even when you succeed in eluding her direct charge.
Arizona Nights Stewart Edward White 1909
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You would be surrounded; men are brutes; the scent of unfaithfulness excites them, overjoys them.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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You would be surrounded; men are brutes; the scent of unfaithfulness excites them, overjoys them.
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
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Povy and I to my Lord Sandwich, who tells me that the Duke is not only a friend to the business, but to me, in terms of the greatest love and respect and value of me that can be thought, which overjoys me.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 34: March/April 1664-65 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Povy and I to my Lord Sandwich, who tells me that the Duke is not only a friend to the business, but to me, in terms of the greatest love and respect and value of me that can be thought, which overjoys me.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1664/65 Pepys, Samuel 1665
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a friend to the business, but to me, in terms of the greatest love and respect and value of me that can be thought, which overjoys me.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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a friend to the business, but to me, in terms of the greatest love and respect and value of me that can be thought, which overjoys me.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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