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e⋅bul⋅lient

  [i-buhl-yuhnt, i-bool-]
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–adjective
1. overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited: The award winner was in an ebullient mood at the dinner in her honor.
2. bubbling up like a boiling liquid.
Origin:
1590–1600; < L ēbullient- (s. of ēbulliēns boiling up, prp. of ēbullīre), equiv. to ē- e- + bulli- (deriv. of bulla a bubble) + -ent- -ent

Related forms:
e⋅bul⋅lient⋅ly, adverb
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e·bul·lient   (ĭ-bŏŏl'yənt, ĭ-bŭl'-)   
adj.  
  1. Zestfully enthusiastic.
  2. Boiling or seeming to boil; bubbling.

[Latin ēbulliēns, ēbullient-, present participle of ēbullīre, to bubble up : ē-, ex-, up, out; see ex- + bullīre, to bubble, boil.]
e·bul'lient·ly adv.
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Ebullient

E*bul"lient\, a. [L. ebulliens, -entis, p. pr. of ebullire to boil up, bubble up; e out, from + bullire to boil. See 1st Boil.] Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. "Ebullient with subtlety." --De Quincey.

The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. --Carlyle.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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ebullient 
1599, "boiling," from L. ebullientem, prp. of ebullire "to spout out, burst out," from ex- "out" + bullire "to bubble" (see boil (v.)). Figurative sense of "enthusiastic" is first recorded 1664.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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