overjoyous
Adjective
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Adjective
overjoyous
- (rare) Extremely happy or celebratory; overjoyed.
- 1834, William Alexander Caruthers, The Cavaliers of Virginia, p. 146 (Google books view) ↗:
- 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, p. 209 (Google books view) ↗:
- 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, The Westerners, ch. 19:
- 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.
- 1834, William Alexander Caruthers, The Cavaliers of Virginia, p. 146 (Google books view) ↗:
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