rejoicing

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of rejoice

noun

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

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