overjoy

Verb

 * 1)  To give great joy, delight or pleasure to.
 * 2) * 1711,, Letter to Henry Cromwell dated 25June, 1711, in Mr. Pope’s Literary Correspondence, London: E. Curll, 1735, Volume2, p.10,
 * If my Letter pleas’d you, your’s overjoy’d me;
 * 1)  To give too much joy to.
 * 2)  To take too much pleasure (in something).
 * 3) * 1598,, The First Set of English Madrigals, London: Thomas Este, Madrigal,
 * Your deeds my hart surchargd with ouerioying:
 * 1) * 1685,, “A Description of the True Circumcision” in Several Discourses Tending to Promote Peace and Holiness among Christians, London: Jonathan Robinson, p.113,
 * That he doth not over-joy in worldly Comforts, nor over-grieve for worldly Losses.
 * 1) * 1598,, The First Set of English Madrigals, London: Thomas Este, Madrigal,
 * Your deeds my hart surchargd with ouerioying:
 * 1) * 1685,, “A Description of the True Circumcision” in Several Discourses Tending to Promote Peace and Holiness among Christians, London: Jonathan Robinson, p.113,
 * That he doth not over-joy in worldly Comforts, nor over-grieve for worldly Losses.
 * That he doth not over-joy in worldly Comforts, nor over-grieve for worldly Losses.

Noun

 * 1) Very great joy.
 * ,, Letter to Robert Karre in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, London: Richard Marriot, 1651, p.299,
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1835,, “The Russian Fugitive” in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, p.143,
 * Amazement rose to pain, / and over-joy produced a fear / Of something void and vain,
 * 1) Excessive joy.
 * Amazement rose to pain, / and over-joy produced a fear / Of something void and vain,
 * 1) Excessive joy.
 * 1) Excessive joy.