exhilarant
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of exhilarant
1795–1805; < Latin exhilarant- (stem of exhilarāns ), present participle of exhilarāre to gladden. See exhilarate, -ant
Example Sentences
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It was a sham exhilarant to which fatal reactions could not but attach.
From On Nothing and Kindred Subjects by Hilaire Belloc
Certainly ill-fortune must have befallen some one to make the good man so exhilarant.
From Paul Prescott's Charge by Horatio Alger
And surely that is the best deliverance in all affliction, to be made so spiritually exhilarant that we can rise above it.
From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett
The knowledge seemed to have no very exhilarant effect, and in his case bore some resemblance to being born tired.
From The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
We weave together all sweet, beautiful, delicate, exhilarant words; we weave them into letters, and then we spell it out in rose and lily and amaranth.
From New Tabernacle Sermons by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
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