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;

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.

The prospect of writing three exams in a row without a break does not overjoy me.

1711, Alexander Pope, Letter to Henry Cromwell dated 25 June, 1711, in Mr. Pope’s Literary Correspondence, London: E. Curll, 1735, Volume 2, p. 10,
If my Letter pleas’d you, your’s overjoy’d me;

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.

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.

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