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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of joy.

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Examples

  • When the news reached Cairo, the merchant Taj al-Din joyed at the return of his son and Nur al-Din’s mother likewise rejoiced therein with passing joy.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • If Bosher could have seen the effect of this elegant extract upon the captain he would probably have "joyed" with infinite self-satisfaction.

    The Willoughby Captains Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • He joyed in her joy, his eyes as excitedly fixed on her as bears were fixed on the object of her attention.

    Chapter XV 2010

  • His eyes snapped vindictively, while his ears joyed in the sniffles she emitted.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • He had marveled at it, and joyed in it, all their years together.

    CHAPTER XXV 2010

  • Lord love me, Dick, but he was joyed to see me, -- him with the upper hand and wedding Tilly.

    SIWASH 2010

  • I ran the liquor down and joyed as the maggots mounted in my brain.

    Chapter 22 2010

  • Jacob Welse loafed and joyed in the utter cessation from work, and Frona joyed with him in that it was good.

    CHAPTER 23 2010

  • At such moments a great sympathy welled up within me, and I felt shame that I had ever joyed in his discomfiture or pain.

    Chapter 13 2010

  • Scott, I was so over-joyed to see you refer to Second Life that I temporarily lost focus and forgot to comment … ..

    I is for Identity « An A-Z of ELT 2010

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