overjoy

1. (transitive) To give great joy, delight or pleasure to.Examples: "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;"transitive

2. (transitive, rare) To give too much joy to.Examples: "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."raretransitive

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To take too much pleasure (in something).Examples: "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."intransitiveobsolete