English Dictionary

rejoice

/ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪs/

verb

(intransitive) To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy. / (obsolete, transitive) To have (someone) as a lover or spouse; to enjoy sexually. / (transitive) To make happy, exhilarate.

They rejoice in their victory.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy.

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.

意味（2）

(obsolete, transitive) To have (someone) as a lover or spouse; to enjoy sexually.

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

意味（3）

(transitive) To make happy, exhilarate.

Were he [Cain] alive, it would rejoice his soul to see what mischief it had made.

意味（4）

(obsolete) To enjoy.

his brother Constans next aftir him rejoiced the same west-parti.