overjoys

Verb

overjoy (third-person singular simple present overjoys, present participle overjoying, simple past and past participle overjoyed)

1. (transitive) To give great joy, delight or pleasure to.
   • The prospect of writing three exams in a row without a break does not overjoy me.
2. (rare, transitive) To give too much joy to.
   • Ah, child, thou art but half thy darling mother’s; / Hers couldst thou wholly be, / My light in thee would outglow all in others; / She would relive to me. / But niggard Nature’s trick of birth / Bars, lest she overjoy, / Renewal of the loved on earth / Save with alloy.1898, Thomas Hardy, “To an Orphan Child”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 163
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To take too much pleasure (in something).
   • Your deeds my hart surchargd with ouerioying:1598, John Wilbye, The First Set of English Madrigals, London: Thomas Este, Madrigal

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