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overjoy

[oh-ver-joi] / ˌoʊ vərˈdʒɔɪ /


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There’s a mix-and-match feel to Battlefront II’s multiplayer that I think is going to overjoy some fans, and infuriate others.

From The Verge Jun. 11, 2017

Then Alaeddin passed through it and was met by his wife, when they embraced and exchanged kisses with all delight until they wept for overjoy.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Adam cried, 'The Lily;' but the sweet voice at his side, Grown tremulous and faint with overjoy, Could only whisper, 'Purity.'

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

You overjoy me, madam; you shall have it, an 'twere twice as much.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott

Are we not overjoy, dearest, and cannot speak?

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu




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