• Rejoicing

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    Verb

    rejoicing
    1. Present participle of rejoice

    Full definition of rejoicing

    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!
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