rejoicern.
/rᵻˈdʒɔɪsə/, U.S. /rəˈdʒɔɪsər/, /riˈdʒɔɪsər/ 1. A person who rejoices.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [noun] > one who
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1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. xii. f. 184 On the other side he calleth the proude, outragious reioysers [Fr. ceux qui s'esgayent], bicause men ioyeng in prosperitie ar wont to reioyse without measure.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xviii. xxxii. 720 As if hee were one of the hopefull sufferers, and patient reioycers.
1648 in T. Shepard Clear Sun-shine of Gospel Ded. sig. A3v England might bee stirred up, to be Rejoycers in..these promising beginnings.
1700 T. Southerne Fate of Capua i. i A kind Rejoycer in our Growth and Strength.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. cix. 399 You hate them; and they would be gainers by his death: Rejoicers in yours.
1846 R. Browning Soul's Trag. in Bells & Pomegranates No. VIII ii. 30/1 By the side of such a rejoicer.
1882 R. L. Stevenson Familiar Stud. Men & Bks. Pref. 18 I made haste to rejoice with the rejoicers.
1939 C. Hollis in C. Williamson Great Catholics xxv. 320 The most confident of rejoicers at the destruction of Christian unity in the sixteenth century.
1963 P. G. Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves xviii. 143 A very different Bassett from the fizzy rejoicer who had exited so short a while before.
2003 P. Frosh Image Factory vii. 174 Suffice to say that both rejoicers and lamenters are both marking a type of ontological fracture.
2. A person who or thing which causes rejoicing. rare.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [noun] > cause or source of
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a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) v. ii. 53 Briefe I am..To those that would and cannot; a Rejoycer . View more context for this quotation
1761 E. Crane Female Parricide iii. i, in Poet. Misc. 32 Thou dear rejoicer of my aged heart.
1834 S. T. Coleridge Hymn to Earth in Friendship's Offering 166 Sister thou of the Stars, and beloved by the Sun, the rejoicer.
1850 P. J. Bailey Angel World 104 So long as all His creatures joy in Him, The great Rejoicer of the Universe.
1912 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 33 279 Kandarpa (god of love) through being thy son (nandana) became also the rejoicer (nandana: a pun) of the hearts of men.
1949 E. Pound Personae (new ed.) 111 She the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them.
2005 E. Russo in R. Mechoulam Cannabinoids as Therapeutics 4 Harshini, the exciter of sexual desire, the rejoicer, delight-giver, causer of elation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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