exultance
- a word derived from exultant.
Example Sentences
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Though Degas demonstrates ballet’s beauty here, he traces no exultance in her; and meanwhile, he allows us to feel kinesthetically just how each muscle is operating.
From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2014
And Mr. Howard’s voice rose to match the music’s crests, from a quiet, elfin murmur to a more insistent, rasp-edged tenor — and at times into a pealing falsetto that merged desperation and exultance.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012
They felt their bodies sway under the effects of acceleration and exultance filled them.
From Wanted—7 Fearless Engineers! by Tremaine, Frederick Orlin
First, a sympathetic cleaving to the earth with the foot: then the voluntary rejection, the spurning, the kicking away, the exultance in power and freedom.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
He could hardly exaggerate the peril he had 72 incurred, and the touch of exultance with which he described his defeat of the murderer was quite pardonable in a tenderfoot.
From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George
