overjoy

== English == === Etymology === From over- +‎ joy. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔɪ === Verb === overjoy (third-person singular simple present overjoys, present participle overjoying, simple past and past participle overjoyed) (transitive) To give great joy, delight or pleasure to. (transitive, rare) To give too much joy to. (intransitive, obsolete) To take too much pleasure (in something). 1598, John Wilbye, The First Set of English Madrigals, London: Thomas Este, Madrigal ,[1] Your deeds my hart surchargd with ouerioying: 1685, Thomas Manton, “A Description of the True Circumcision” in Several Discourses Tending to Promote Peace and Holiness among Christians, London: Jonathan Robinson, p. 113,[3] That he doth not over-joy in worldly Comforts, nor over-grieve for worldly Losses. ==== Derived terms ==== overjoyed === Noun === overjoy Very great joy. Synonym: ecstasy a. 1631, John Donne, Letter to Robert Karre in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, London: Richard Marriot, 1651, p. 299,[4] I beginne to bee past hope of dying: And I feele that a little ragge of Monte Magor, which I read last time I was in your Chamber, hath wrought prophetically upon mee, which is, that Death came so fast towards mee, that the over-joy of that recovered mee. 1835, William Wordsworth, “The Russian Fugitive” in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, p. 143,[5] Amazement rose to pain, / and over-joy produced a fear / Of something void and vain, Excessive joy.