overjoyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɔɪ

動詞

overjoy (三人称単数 現在形 overjoys, 現在分詞 overjoying, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

   • 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, OCLC 837836359, (please specify the page):

     This salutation ouerioyes my heart.

   • c. 1612–1615?, John Fletcher; Francis Beaumont; revised by Philip Massinger, “Loves Cure or, The Martial Maid”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, Act V, scene ii, page 143:

     In overjoying me, you are grown sad;

   • 1711, Alexander Pope, Letter to Henry Cromwell dated 25 June, 1711, in Mr. Pope’s Literary Correspondence, London: E. Curll, 1735, Volume 2, p. 10,^[1]

     If my Letter pleas’d you, your’s overjoy’d me;

2. (transitive, rare) To give too much joy to.
   • 1898, Thomas Hardy “To an Orphan Child” in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York and London: Harper, p. 163,^[2]

     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.

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To take too much pleasure (in something).
   • 1598, John Wilbye, The First Set of English Madrigals, London: Thomas Este, Madrigal ,^[3]

     Your deeds my hart surchargd with ouerioying:

   • 1618, Joseph Hall, Contemplations upon the Principall Passages of the Holy Story, London: Henry Fetherstone, Volume 4, p. 42,^[4]

     it is hard not to ouer-ioy in a sudden prosperitie, and, to vse happinesse is no lesse difficult, then to forbeare it

   • 1685, Thomas Manton, “A Description of the True Circumcision” in Several Discourses Tending to Promote Peace and Holiness among Christians, London: Jonathan Robinson, p. 113,^[5]

     That he doth not over-joy in worldly Comforts, nor over-grieve for worldly Losses.

派生語

• overjoyed

名詞

overjoy

1. Very great joy.

   Synonym: ecstasy

   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:

     to salute my king / With ruder terms, such as my wit affords / And over-joy of heart doth minister