Word Meanings - OVERJOY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely.
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- GRATIFY
1. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden. 2. To requite; to recompense. It remains - JOYFUL
Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart. "Joyful tidings." Shak. My soul shall be joyful in my God. Is. lxi. 10. Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life. Pope. -- Joy"ful*ly, adv. -- Joy"ful*ness, n. - EXTREMELY
In an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold.