Rejoiceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English rejoicen, rejoisen, from Old French resjoir. Compare also English rejoy.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪs/
• 韻: -ɔɪs

動詞

rejoice (三人称単数 現在形 rejoices, 現在分詞 rejoicing, 過去形および過去分詞形 rejoiced)

1. (intransitive) To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy. [from 14th c.]
   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, Oxford University Press, 1973, §6:

     Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye ; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs to be delightful and rejoicing.

   • 1945 September and October, H. C. Casserley, “The Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:

     At Waterhouses and Hulme End the usual booking office, waiting room and other station accommodation were to be found, but the remaining stations […] were mere stopping places, some of which rejoiced in a small shed for waiting passengers, others without any kind of shelter whatsoever.

   • 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Leicester closed out the win to spark emotional scenes as those inside Wembley rejoiced in a landmark victory.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To have (someone) as a lover or spouse; to enjoy sexually. [15th–16th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:

     ye that are a knyghte wyueles that ye wyl not loue some mayden or gentylwoman / […] / but hit is noysed that ye loue quene Gueneuer / and that she hath ordeyned by enchauntement that ye shal neuer loue none other / but her / ne none other damoysel ne lady shall reioyse you

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3. (transitive) To make happy, exhilarate. [from 15th c.]
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:

     Were he [Cain] alive, it would rejoice his soul to see what mischief it had made.

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber, 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p.790-1:

     But good news awaited them in the form of permission to travel about the area replenishing medical stocks in hospitals and clinics, and this task was delegated to Constance, as the newcomer, a fact which rejoiced her.

4. (obsolete) To enjoy.
   • c. 1449–1455, Reginald Peacock, Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie

     his brother Constans next aftir him rejoiced the same west-parti.

派生語

• rejoiceful
• rejoiceless
• rejoicement

参照

• “rejoice in” (US) / “rejoice in” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• The Oxford Dictionary of English, 2005 edition, also lists rejoice in: (British) used ironically to draw attention to a strange characteristic, especially a name: the guard rejoiced in the name of Blossom.