rejoicing

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈd͡ʒoɪ.sɪŋ/

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rejoicing

1. present participle and gerund of rejoice

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!