Rejoice vs Null - What's the difference?
rejoice | null |
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)
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
In transitive terms the difference between rejoice and null
is that rejoice is to make happy, exhilarate while null is to nullify; to annul.As verbs the difference between rejoice and null
is that rejoice is to be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy while null is to nullify; to annul.As a noun null is
a non-existent or empty value or set of values.As an adjective null is
having no validity, "null and void.rejoice
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Alternative forms
* rejoyceVerb
(rejoic)null
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Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.