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noun
the act of exulting; lively or triumphant joy, as over success or victory.
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Exultation
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- Poets had no qualms about airing intimacies of regret and exultation.
- Be happy, dear hearts, and allow yourselves a few more weeks of quiet exultation.
- Sometimes applause is a form of pray and exultation.
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Word Origin & History
exultation
early 15c., from M.Fr. exulter, from L. exultare, frequentative of exsilire "leap out or up," from ex- "forth" + salire "to leap" (see salient). Notion is of leaping or dancing for joy.
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