Definition of "rejoice" []

• To feel joyful; be delighted: rejoiced at the news; rejoiced in her friend's good fortune. (verb-intransitive)
• To fill with joy; gladden. (verb-transitive)
• Rejoice in To have or possess: rejoices in a keen mind. (phrasal-verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "One week later, fans can again rejoice with the release of The Elephant Man!"
• "Then they would walk in the light of His countenance indeed, and 'in His name rejoice all the day, and in His righteousness for ever be exalted.'"
• ": "Be not carried off your feet by the grandeur you have lately seen in Me, but remember what I have told you, and now tell you again, that that Sun in whose beams ye now rejoice is soon to set in midnight gloom.""