joy

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When persons experience true comfort and spiritual joy, their joy is the joy of faith and love.

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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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  • (That Latin gaudere , by the way, is also the source of the English word joy.) —  The Word Detective
  • When persons experience true comfort and spiritual joy, their joy is the joy of faith and love. —  Latest Articles
  • But it appears our joy was a bit premature. against Senate Joint Resolution 24, which would have sealed "Do You Realize??" 's place in the history books. —  Pitchfork: Latest News
  • What's especially a joy is a special feature entitled "Fruits Basket Room #2." —  Anime News Network
  • And thus blest Hymen joy'd his gracious bride, And for his joy was after deified. —  Hero and Leander and Other Poems
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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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