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overjoyous en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + joyous.

Meanings

1. (rare) Extremely happy or celebratory; overjoyed.
   • I, Aurora Leigh, was born To make my father sadder, and myself Not overjoyous, truly. 1857, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, First Book:
   • Sir John when he heard it was over-joyous. 1848, George Payne Rainsford James, Beauchamp: Or, The Error, Volume 3, page 209:
   • Sometimes there was a celebration. One or two members of the little community were inclined to become a trifle over joyous too often for their health. 1900, Stewart Edward White, chapter 19, in The Westerners:
   • Now and then a note from the bugle of some overjoyous youths as he entered the forest, brought a frown upon the brow of old Congo. 1834, William Alexander Caruthers, The Cavaliers of Virginia, page 146:

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