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Definition of Joyfulness

1. Noun. The emotion of great happiness.

Definition of Joyfulness

1. Noun. the state of being joyful ¹

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Definition of Joyfulness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Joyfulness

Literary usage of Joyfulness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"... in the steadfastness and confidence of their faith, and above all in the joyfulness with which they met the cruellest of deaths by martyrdom. ..."

2. Accounts of Religious Revivals in Many Parts of the United States from 1815 by Joshua Bradley (1819)
"When speaking of its quickening powers upon their souls—their countenances would beam with joyfulness, while they ascribed all the praise to God, ..."

3. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: In Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Beecher, Henry Ward, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1874)
"... CHRISTIAN Joyfulness. '• Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in Prayer."—ROMANS xii. 12. This may be called a maxim of life, ..."

4. The Theological and Literary Journal (1855)
"... other crises of the church, trains of consequences far transcending in greatness and joyfulness their largest anticipations, their ' most ardent hopes. ..."

5. Sermons Preached in Lincoln's Inn Chapel by Frederick Denison Maurice (1892)
"... 1859 " Let Thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let Thy saints sing with joyfulness"—PSALM cxxxii. 9 (Prayer-book Version). ..."

6. Seeds and Sheaves: Or, Words of Scripture; Their History and Fruits by Augustus Charles Thompson (1869)
"... go through long suffering, he must have patience, especially if he would endure it joyfully." Such joyfulness is the believer,s privilege in sickness. ..."

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