rejoice

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy. intransitive
    — Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye ; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs to be delightful and rejoicing.
  2. To have (someone) as a lover or spouse; to enjoy sexually. obsolete,transitive
    — ye that are a knyghte wyueles that ye wyl not loue some mayden or gentylwoman /[…]/ but hit is noysed that ye loue quene Gueneuer / and that she hath ordeyned by enchauntement that ye shal neuer loue none other / but her / ne none other damoysel ne lady shall reioyse you
  3. To make happy, exhilarate. transitive
    — Were he [Cain] alive, it would rejoice his soul to see what mischief it had made.
  4. To enjoy. obsolete
    — c. 1449–1455, Reginald Peacock, Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie his brother Constans next aftir him rejoiced the same west-parti.

词形变化

rejoices present,singular,third-person rejoicing participle,present rejoiced participle,past rejoiced past rejoyce alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
rejoiceful rejoiceless rejoicement rejoicer rejoicingly unrejoiced unrejoicing

词源

From Middle English rejoicen, rejoisen, from Old French resjoir. Doublet of rejoy. Compare French réjouir; Spanish regocijar; Portuguese regozijar; Italian gioire
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