joying

Verb

joy (third-person singular simple present joys, present participle joying, simple past and past participle joyed)

1. (intransitive) To feel joy, to rejoice.
   • for oftymes or this oure lord shewed hym vnto good men and vnto good knyghtes in lykenes of an herte But I suppose from hens forth ye shalle see no more / and thenne they Ioyed moche / and dwelled ther alle that day / And vpon the morowe whan they had herde masse / they departed and commaunded the...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter IX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII
2. (archaic, transitive) To enjoy.
   • I haue my wish, in that I ioy thy sight,1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC...
3. (obsolete, transitive) To give joy to; to congratulate.
   • Then round our Death-bed ev'ry Friend ſhou'd run, / And joy us of our Conqueſt, early won: […]1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book III, page 88
4. (obsolete, transitive) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
   • Yet neither pleasure’s art can joy my spirits,
     Nor yet the other’s distance comfort me.c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry...

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