joyful

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

JOY'FUL, adjective Full of joy; very glad; exulting. My soul shall be joyful in my God. Isaiah 61:10. Rarely, it has of before the cause of joy. Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life.
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