What's the difference between enjoy and rejoice?

Enjoy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation.
  • (v. t.) To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty.
  • (v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.
  • (v. i.) To take satisfaction; to live in happiness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over the past decade, the quinolone antimicrobial class has enjoyed a renaissance with the emergence of the fluoroquinolone subclass.
  • (2) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
  • (3) Of course it is important to ensure shareholders enjoy the benefits of investing in the company, they are the owners.
  • (4) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
  • (5) #kflead May 21, 2014 The King's Fund IKS (@kingsfund_lib) Hope you enjoyed @GregSearle2012 's #kflead workshop!
  • (6) The nurses who enjoyed the field most were of the androgynous or masculine type and had high levels of self-esteem.
  • (7) For now however, what’s left of their fan base are enjoying a rare burst of sunshine.
  • (8) Until the bell, 19-year-old Lizzie Armitstead figured strongly in a leading group of 12 that at one point enjoyed a two-minute lead, racing comfortably alongside the Olympic time-trial champion Kristin Armstrong.
  • (9) They anticipated the following scenario: a struggling club fires its manager and enjoys an immediate upsurge.
  • (10) Those are our picks, but what have you been enjoying on Android this week?
  • (11) With this technique, both FP and UC patients enjoyed excellent or good function in 90% of the cases.
  • (12) I suppose he’ll have to go to QPR.” Lampard released a statement confirming his departure from Chelsea that read: “When I arrived at this fantastic club 13 years ago I would never have believed that I would be fortunate enough to play so many games and enjoy sharing in so much success.
  • (13) Delabole residents Susan and John Theobald said: “We’ve always enjoyed being around the turbines and have often walked right up to them with our dogs.
  • (14) As well as enjoying access to a number of RAF bases, the agency has been flying in and out of civilian airports across the country.
  • (15) The survey also found that department stores – which include general retailers such as Marks & Spencer as well as traditional outlets such as John Lewis – had enjoyed their strongest surge in sales for 30 years.
  • (16) In an official response to the EU Brexit negotiating team, British in Europe and the3million have said that if May’s proposal is adopted it would represent a “severe reduction of the current rights” enjoyed by Britons in Europe.
  • (17) We’ve got to enjoy this because we might never get the opportunity to do this again.
  • (18) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
  • (19) The latest filed accounts show Coates and her family have started to enjoy the fruits of their labour, sharing almost £75m in dividends over three years.
  • (20) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.

Rejoice


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted.
  • (v. t.) To enjoy.
  • (v. t.) To give joy to; to make joyful; to gladden.
  • (n.) The act of rejoicing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
  • (2) With gratitude and rejoice, we commemorate the return to International arena.
  • (3) The markets went quiet, Spain, Italy, and Ireland rejoiced, as Draghi emphasised for the third time in six weeks that the euro is irreversible.
  • (4) Yet while our national income is almost back to where it was before the crisis (rejoice!
  • (5) The over-50s, rejoicing in the untaxed capital gains they enjoy from buying property a generation ago, will help their own kids, but are not asked to help anyone else’s.
  • (6) Green campaigners were rejoicing over the departure of the climate sceptic, while the National Farmers' Union was downcast at the exit of a cabinet minister who consistently stuck up for rural areas.
  • (7) He sounds, as it were, the fatal bottom of our organic existence, and yet claims not merely to accept the universe, as another Transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, put it, but to rejoice in it.
  • (8) Allowed to play, Alan Pardew having opted against recalling the out-of-favour Mile Jedinak to anchor his midfield, the visitors rejoiced.
  • (9) In an interview on his 90th birthday, he was asked if he had rejoiced at the news.
  • (10) "I think Africans rejoicing at his making it to office came from the need for a psychological boost as well as an indication of Africans buying into the American dream – that one's roots can be African and one can succeed in life, with those roots.
  • (11) As a Guardian writer, I should rejoice at the added readers and influence we will get (though all these challenges are ours, too).
  • (12) Northerners, it seems, are expected to rejoice at the fact they can commute to well-paying jobs in the south-east without having to up sticks.
  • (13) In the fevered Daily Mail version, this fact suggests a nefarious and hyperactive court, up to mischief and rejoicing in 'overruling' national authorities, better to promote the interests of sex offenders and the homicidal.
  • (14) "Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha, come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand," she said in an interview with a Christian radio station.
  • (15) However, it is still early for us to rejoice knowing that China is not heeding the ruling.
  • (16) Greeks,” he said, “should rejoice.” The government that had put the country through an assault course of austerity would soon be over.
  • (17) The home crowd were silenced, the Irish players rejoiced.
  • (18) He taught us so much about seizing opportunities and rejoicing in everything life could offer, no matter how small.” Hett’s friend Christina wrote that her heart was “broken into a million pieces” at the loss of “my best friend, my maid of honour”.
  • (19) The protesters, including a choir singing the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah, rejoiced at his departure.
  • (20) Until recently, most self-respecting rock bohemians would stay at the dilapidated but charming Chelsea, where they would rejoice in being shouted at by the manager for daring to ask to have the room where Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen.