overjoy

verb

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.”

   “This salutation ouerioyes my heart.”

   “In overjoying me, you are grown sad;”

   “If my Letter pleas'd you, your's overjoy'd me; and I expect impatiently your kind Viſit: […]”

2. (rare, transitive)To give too much joy to.

   “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 , 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”

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

noun

1. Very great joy.

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

   “a. 1631, John Donne, Letter to Robert Karre in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, London: Richard Marriot, 1651, p. 299, I beginne to bee past hope of dying: And I feele that a little ragge of Monte Magor, which I read last time I was in your Chamber, hath wrought prophetically upon mee, which is, that Death came so fast towards mee, that the over-joy of that recovered mee.”

   “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,”

   “The katydids express their overjoy / Down in knee-high maturing August grasses;”

2. 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.”