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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
rejoyce .
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Examples
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The rest of the world rejoyces as now there are more ways for us to get development going, instead of just sending a few select from some obscure Freemasons lodge into space to play checkers and act as though they've been to the moon!
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So we rejoyces for the nawt second peeps who tink of sumthin fun so kwik, we danse and danse and danse.
NOM NOM NOM NOM! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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For we pity Misfortunes no where so much as in one we saw but lately happy: Nor do we joy to see a Man flourish; but to see him rise from Ills to a flourishing Condition, rejoyces the Mind.
A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney
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In the mean while, do but see the husband, poor _Nicholas None-eys_ how he rejoyces, that his wife is so reasonable strong again; and that she is so neatly trickt up sitting in state in the best furnished room, by the bed-side!
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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The more the Soul rejoyces in sensible love, the less delight God has in it; on the contrary, the less the Soul rejoyces in this sensible love, the more God delights in it.
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But if the Soul rejoyces in, or eyes the effects of God in the creatures, and amongst them, in the humanity of our
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Soul as this is already arrived to such a happiness, that it neither wills nor desires any thing but what its Beloved wills; it conforms it self to this Will in all emergencies, as well of comfort as anguish, and rejoyces also in every thing to do the Divine Good Pleasure.
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[The warder proclayms the Cossacks 'retreat, and the citie greatly rejoyces.]
Ballads William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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The Words of the 19th Psalm are, In them hath he set a Tabernacle for the Sun, which is as a Bridegroom coming out of his Chamber; and rejoyces as a strong Man to run his Race, &c.
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By and by they hear the Bunch of Keys, which rejoyces their Hearts like the sound of the_ Pancake-Bell.
Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 Thomas D'Urfey 1688
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