overjoy verb 3noun 2forms 3 verb3 •To give great joy, delight or pleasure to.The prospect of writing three exams in a row without a break does not overjoy me. •(rare) To give too much joy to. •(no longer used) To take too much pleasure (in something).it is hard not to ouer-ioy in a sudden prosperitie, and, to vse happinesse is no lesse difficult, then to forbeare it — 1618 noun2 •Very great joy.to salute my king / With ruder terms, such as my wit affords / And over-joy of heart doth minister — 1591 •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). — 1963 formsoverjoyed · overjoying · overjoys
