Rejoicings synonyms

He was received with great rejoicings and quickly regained his former position of power.

In addition to being a harvest festival, marked by the ordinary popular rejoicings, the Haloa had a religious character.

He was received with immense rejoicings, not indeed directly by the court, but by the Academy, by society and by all 'ihe more important foreign visitors.

Among other events which made the streets gay and centred in processions to St Paul's may be specially mentioned the Thanksgiving Day on the 27th of February 1872 for the recovery of the prince of Wales after his dangerous illness; and the rejoicings at the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887, and the Diamond Jubilee in 1897.