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1562 T. Sternhold et al. Whole Bk. Psalmes 374 Sing ye vnto the Lorde our God, a new reioysing song.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. i. 32 The fam'd Cassibulan..Made Luds-Towne with reioycing-Fires bright. View more context for this quotation

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 85. ¶1 I met with several Fragments of it upon the next Rejoycing-day.

1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. 96 Sudden commotions of the mind are expressed, whether upon lamenting, or rejoicing occasions.

1760 T. Gray Let. 23 Jan. (1971) II. 657 The first rejoicing night he was terribly frighted, and thought the bonefire was made for him.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 214 You will..set him a-ringing his clapper, as if he were a town-bell on a rejoicing day.

1885 Academy 5 Sept. 147/1 In 1660 he preached a rejoicing sermon on the restoration of Charles II.

1923 H. Garland Bk. Amer. Indian x. 237 The past and the present fused together strangely in my mind as the ancient shining winds blew and the old rejoicing days came back.

1924 Travel Apr. 35/2 Pipers had trilled rejoicing airs on their peculiarly nerve-racking shepherds' pipes.

1966 Artibus Asiae 22 56 I offer as ornament for the neck of the great mother this beautiful white scarf very white and adorned with auspicious signs along with the singing of auspicious rejoicing songs.

2005 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 7 Apr. (National section) 1 This is a rejoicing day.