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rejoicing

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈd͡ʒoɪ.sɪŋ/
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Verb

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rejoicing

  1. present participle and gerund of rejoice

Noun

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rejoicing (countable and uncountable, plural rejoicings)

  1. An act of showing joy.
    There was much rejoicing when the good news finally arrived.
    • 1842, Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Disowned, page 286:
      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!