Jove


Jupiter (def 1).
Archaic. the planet Jupiter.
by Jove!, (an exclamation used to emphasize an accompanying remark or to express surprise, approval, etc.):
It was a good fight, by Jove!
Contemporary Examples

Florida Is Going Democratic Michael Tomasky August 29, 2012

Historical Examples

The Silent Bullet Arthur B. Reeve
Endymion John Keats
Still Jim Honor Willsie Morrow
“Unto Caesar” Baroness Emmuska Orczy
The Iliad of Homer (1873) Homer
The Crusade of the Excelsior Bret Harte
Guy Deverell, v. 1 of 2 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
In Eastern Seas J. J. Smith
Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth

noun
another name for Jupiter1
by Jove, an exclamation of surprise or excitement

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