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rejoice
1. v. (intransitive) To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy.
2. v. (obsolete, transitive) To have (someone) as a lover or spouse; to enjoy sexually.
3. v. To make happy, exhilarate.
4. v. (obsolete) To enjoy.

Example Sentences

Can a being create the fifty billion galaxies, each with one hundred billion stars, then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?  A blind man asks only for one eye, but would rejoice if he got two.

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