Definition of "rejoicings" [rejoicings]

• Plural form of rejoicing. (noun)

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• "When the rejoicings were at an end, the people returned to their places and the King and his son to the palace, where they sat down and fell to eating and drinking and making merry."
• "Our deplorings and our rejoicings are alike feeble guesses at the significance of events whose real nature is hidden from us."
• "To him, indeed, this union was the cause of heartfelt and earnest rejoicings, which is not strange, seeing that it meant nothing less than a new lease of life to an ancient family that was on the verge of disappearance."