rejoicing

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈd͡ʒoɪ.sɪŋ/
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Verb

rejoicing

  1. present participle and gerund of rejoice

Noun

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!