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
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He laughed, something exhilarant in his boiling over, and even in her sudden terror of him she looked at his bare teeth and felt the unnice beauty of the storm.
From The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst
Belief which is never oxygenated by open confession can never nourish the soul into vigorous and exhilarant health.
From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett
A keen smell of the far ocean came to their nostrils and the air was clear and exhilarant.
From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim
For months it had haunted him in his idle moments, inspiring him with vague and exhilarant emotions.
From The Gray Phantom by Herman Landon
Psyche has loosed herself from the fettering contact of Daimon, and lo, now, how daintily she poises on tiptoe, fluttering her wings ere she launches like a star into the wide exhilarant ether!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various
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