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Definition of Overjoying
1. overjoy [v] - See also: overjoy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overjoying
Literary usage of Overjoying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some Longer Elizabethan Poems by Arthur Henry Bullen (1903)
"ADY, your words do spite me ! Yet your sweet lips, so soft, kiss and delight me!
Your deeds, my heart surcharge with overjoying; Your taunts my life ..."
2. The Court of King James the First by Godfrey Goodman (1839)
"... mischance should happen in your journey, and partly by reason [of] Mr.
Crompton's* late distemper in his brain, into which he fell upon an overjoying ..."
3. The Records of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, Wilmington, Del., from 1697 by Holy Trinity Church (Wilmington, Del.), Horace Burr (1890)
"However much I was intending to go over in the Spring, yet now I was especially
encouraged and enlivened by such an unexpected and overjoying letter to ..."
4. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall by Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863)
"(Of sins done; whose trouble Of pain suffered : Overjoying Over- desiring f In
their guiltiness considered. (How turbulent they are, till thr conscience be ..."
5. Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware by Historical Society of Delaware (1890)
"However much I was intending to go over in the Spring, yet now I was especially
encouraged and enlivened by such an unexpected and overjoying letter to ..."
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