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  1. noun Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness.
  2. noun The expression or manifestation of such feeling.
  3. noun A source or an object of pleasure or satisfaction: their only child, their pride and joy.
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  • All their poetry, their passion and their joy is there, in this place of their tragedy, visible, palpable, narrow as the grave and boundless. —  The Three Brontes
  • What allayed his joy was his fear of not being the most agreeable to her, and he would have preferred the happiness of pleasing to the certainty of marrying her without being beloved. —  The Princess of Cleves
  • Another joy was added to life by the use of my name — which by all these struggles had gained a marketable value — as author of pamphlets I had never seen, and this forgery of my name by unscrupulous people in the colonies caused me a good deal of annoyance. —  An Autobiography
  • B_ut now his joy is all in you; —  Horace and His Influence
  • Angry _ _ _ _ _ —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English joie, from Old French, from Latin gaudia, pl. of gaudium, joy, from gaudēre, to rejoice; see gāu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from ME joye, joie, from Old French joie, joye, joy, pleasure, also French joie, joy, assibilated form of goie, goye, goy, a gaud, jewel, = Provencal joi, masculine, joia, feminine, = Spanish joya, a gaud, jewel, = Portuguese joia = Italian gioja, joy, a jewel, from Middle Latin gaudia, feminine, joy, a jewel, orig. neuter plural of Latin gaudium, joy, from gaudere, rejoice: see gaud. Hence ult. joy, v., enjoy, joice, rejoice, jewel, etc.
  2. from Middle English joyen, joien, from Old French joir, jouir (French jouir), assibilated form of goir = Provencal gaudir, jauzir, gauzir = Spanish Portuguese gozar = Old Italian gaudire, Italian gaudere, from Latin gaudere, rejoice: see gaud, and cf. joy, n., enjoy, joice, rejoice, etc.
 

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