overjoyous
See also: over-joyous and over joyous
English
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Adjective
overjoyous (comparative more overjoyous, superlative most overjoyous)
- (rare) Extremely happy or celebratory; overjoyed.
- 1834, William Alexander Caruthers, The Cavaliers of Virginia, page 146:
- 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.
- 1848, George Payne Rainsford James, Beauchamp: Or, The Error, Volume 3, page 209:
- Sir John when he heard it was over-joyous.
- 1857, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, First Book:
- I, Aurora Leigh, was born
To make my father sadder, and myself
Not overjoyous, truly.
- 1900, Stewart Edward White, chapter 19, in The Westerners:
- 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.
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