Definition of "overjoyed"

The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who, being overjoyed with finding a birds’ nest, shows it his companion, and he steals it.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]

They were most agreeably surprised to see me, and I quite overjoyed at meeting with them.

1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 9, in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‎, volume 2, London: for the author, page 85

Diana was not the most discerning of mortals, but just at this moment it struck her that Anne was not looking exactly overjoyed.

1915, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter 15, in Anne of the Island, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, page 150

You are overjoyed the first few times you are invited to an interview, dressing carefully on each occasion in your Lady Dis and suit that now hangs encouragingly loose.

2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 8, in This Mournable Body‎, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press

Which must teach vs not to be ouer-ioyed with any of Gods fauours, and honours, but euen then to thinke of, and to prepare for some following after-claps, and as contentedly to endure the one, as cheerefully receiue the other.

1616, Daniel Dyke, “The Historie of Christs Temptation”, in Two Treatises‎, London: Ralph Mab, pages 211–212