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English
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Verb
rejoicing
- present participle and gerund of rejoice
Noun
rejoicing (countable and uncountable, plural rejoicings)
- 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!
1955 April, R. K. Kirkland, “The Staines Branch, Western Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 227: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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