different between rejoice vs rejoicing

English

Alternative forms

• rejoyce

Etymology

From Middle English rejoicen, rejoisen, from Old French resjoir. Compare also English rejoy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d????s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Verb

rejoice (third-person singular simple present rejoices, present participle rejoicing, simple past and past participle rejoiced)

1. (intransitive) To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy. [from 14^thc.]
   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, Oxford University Press, 1973, §6:

     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.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To have (someone) as a lover or spouse; to enjoy sexually. [15^th-16^thc.]
3. (transitive) To make happy, exhilarate. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations

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

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber, 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p.790-1:

     But good news awaited them in the form of permission to travel about the area replenishing medical stocks in hospitals and clinics, and this task was delegated to Constance, as the newcomer, a fact which rejoiced her.

4. (obsolete) To enjoy.

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Derived terms

• rejoiceful
• rejoiceless
• rejoicement

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d????s??/

Verb

rejoicing

1. present participle of rejoice

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!