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Definition of Overjoys
1. overjoy [v] - See also: overjoy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overjoys
Literary usage of Overjoys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires on the Follies of the Day by Stephen Leacock (1916)
"The overjoys have not sold their motor. Neither have they sold their magnificent
... Meantime it is a matter of general notoriety that the overjoys are ..."
2. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1894)
"... Duke is not only a friend to the business, but to me, in terms of the greatest
love and respect and value of me that can be thought, which overjoys me. ..."
3. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1899)
"This great victory of truth over infidelity overjoys the missionary; but he is
well aware of the difficulties that still lie in the way of the savages, ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"This salutation overjoys my heart. K. EDW. Warwick shall be my chiefest counsellor:
These silver hairs will more adorn my court Than gaudy silks, ..."
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