exultant
adjective
exulting; highly elated; jubilant; triumphant.
exultance
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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
Hardly had I reached it before Rador came hurrying up, in his manner a curious exultance mingled with what in anyone else I would have called a decided nervousness.
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
Her expression was a most imprudent betrayal; it clearly told, by its acerbity and exultance, that she held the present occasion to be one of prodigious and triumphant import.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
Forbes felt no longer an exultance at falling in with these people.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
