Rejoice vs Mourn - What's the difference?
rejoice | mourn |
To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy.
*1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral , Oxford University Press, 1973, ยง6:
*:Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye ; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs to be delightful and rejoicing .
(obsolete) To have (someone) as a lover or spouse; to enjoy sexually.
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*:ye that are a knyghte wyueles that ye wyl not loue some mayden or gentylwoman // but hit is noysed that ye loue quene Gueneuer / and that she hath ordeyned by enchauntement that ye shal neuer loue none other / but her / ne none other damoysel ne lady shall reioyse you
To make happy, exhilarate.
*(John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)
*:Were he [Cain] alive, it would rejoice his soul to see what mischief it had made.
*1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber, 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p.790-1:
*:But good news awaited them in the form of permission to travel about the area replenishing medical stocks in hospitals and clinics, and this task was delegated to Constance, as the newcomer, a fact which rejoiced her.
(obsolete) To enjoy.
:(Bishop Peacock)
To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
* Bible, Genesis xxiii. 2
* Shakespeare
Sorrow, grief.
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*:Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle
A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
As verbs the difference between rejoice and mourn
is that rejoice is to be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy while mourn is to express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).As a noun mourn is
sorrow, grief.rejoice
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Alternative forms
* rejoyceVerb
(rejoic)mourn
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* morneVerb
- Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
- We mourn' in black; why ' mourn we not in blood?
