overjoy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To give great joy, delight or pleasure to.

   • The prospect of writing three exams in a row without a break does not overjoy me.
   • This salutation ouerioyes my heart.
   • In overjoying me, you are grown sad;
2. 2

   To give too much joy to.

3. 3

   To take too much pleasure (in something).

   • 1598, John Wilbye, The First Set of English Madrigals, London: Thomas Este, Madrigal , Your deeds my hart surchargd with ouerioying:
   • it is hard not to ouer-ioy in a sudden prosperitie, and, to vse happinesse is no lesse difficult, then to forbeare it
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   1. 4

      Very great joy.

      • to salute my king / With ruder terms, such as my wit affords / And over-joy of heart doth minister
      • 1835, William Wordsworth, “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,
   2. 5

      Excessive joy.

      • Restraint of the organs of sense, on which success in study and discipline depends, can be enforced by abandoning lust, anger, greed, vanity (māna), haughtiness (mada) and overjoy (harṣa).
      • The knowledge that some are deprived tempers overjoy or overdesire.
      • The emotional extremes of overexcitement, overjoy, depression, and anxiety are all blockages in the Message Center.

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