rejoicing
noun
the act of a person who rejoices.
rejoicingly
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a word derived from
rejoicing.
Example Sentences
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The same person who will march rejoicingly off to a performance of Ghosts in Italian prefers to read it in an English translation It rather than an Italian text or the original Scandinavian.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the spring the men returned rejoicingly to Canada, with their canoes laden with the richest furs.
From The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
No—the year steps onward towards its temporary decay, if not so rejoicingly, even more majestically and gracefully, than it does towards its revivification.
From Mirror of the Months by Peter George Patmore
The gates are flung open; men go rejoicingly to see the Doric camp, the deserted stations and abandoned shore.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
They were received merrily and rejoicingly by their friends; they ate little and drank much and became gay; they sang, and played on the guitar; the Saltarello sounded and the dance began.
From The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. by Fanny Fuller
