rejoiceless

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English

Etymology

From rejoice +‎ -less.

Adjective

rejoiceless (comparative more rejoiceless, superlative most rejoiceless)

  1. Without rejoicing
    • 2002, Donald Revell, Arcady, page 70:
      Terror guarded the mid-region
      Where everything was Greeks
      And I needed to risk it
      In the dark
      And rejoiceless heart
      Of helplessness
    • 2007, Margaret Diane Stetz, Cheryl Ann Wilson, Michael Field and their world, page 187:
      Feminine doves, also suggesting the form of the Holy Spirit, nest in these "Caves of Passion," which are "voiceless," yet not "rejoiceless."
    • 2015, Father Yours, *John 6:66, Eternity with the TRINITY Vs Eternity with the Beast:
      To laugh off tempts to going overly 'blue' (any rejoiceless spirits), depressed, deflated, etc. “The One whose throne is in heavens sits laughing” (Ps 2:4) refers to God.

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