rejoice
verb (used without object)
to be glad; take delight (often followed byin ).
had been rejoicing
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past perfect progressiveof rejoice.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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There had been rejoicing; it was easy to picture the populace lying in wait for the expected relief party from the château.
From The Man from Brodney's by George Barr McCutcheon
The Antiquary, who had been rejoicing in the hope of getting both principal and interest of a debt which he had long thought desperate, could only gasp out the words, "Advance one hundred pounds!"
From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Sir Walter Scott
Christmas Eve came but once a year, and the children had been rejoicing in the thought of it all the autumn.
From Invisible Links by Selma Lagerlöf
At a blow, it shattered all the gorgeous imaginative fabric his mind had been rejoicing in.
From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It was a race for liberty and the preservation of the wealth in which they had been rejoicing.
From Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War by T. Hoggans
