rejoice
verb (used without object)
to be glad; take delight (often followed byin ).
has rejoiced
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present perfectof rejoice (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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For a decade he has rejoiced at being known as "the worst hated and most utterly unscrupulous man in China."
From Time Magazine Archive
The intelligence we have received by your letters, Mr. Boutwell, &c., of the Lord's doings among you, as a people, at the Sault, has rejoiced our hearts much.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Today only a few lines of thanks for your last letter, which has rejoiced me unspeakably.
From Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 by Francis Hueffer
My dear Hooker, I had intended writing this morning to thank Mrs. Hooker most sincerely for her last and several notes about you, and now your own note in your hand has rejoiced me.
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
Then he called to his opposite in the quadrille: “Cathcart, can you tell me how long Mrs. Loring has rejoiced in that title of honour?”
From Janice Meredith by Paul Leicester Ford
