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exult Verb to be joyful or jubilant [Latin exsultare to jump for joy] exultation n
exultant adj USAGE: See at exalt. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms  Translations exult [ɪgˈzʌlt] vi → regocijarse exult [ɪgˈzʌlt] vi → exulter, jubiler exult [ɪgˈzʌlt] vi to exult (in) → jubeln (über +acc) exult [ɪgˈzʌlt] vi → esultare, gioire |
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I was haunted by the fear that she would, sooner or later, find me out, with a black face and hands, doing the coarsest part of my work, and would exult over me and despise me. But what right, the next thought in his brain would whisper, had such a girl to swagger around like a man and exult that adventure was not dead? Art thou come, by chance, cruel basilisk of these mountains, to see if in thy presence blood will flow from the wounds of this wretched being thy cruelty has robbed of life; or is it to exult over the cruel work of thy humours that thou art come; or like another pitiless Nero to look down from that height upon the ruin of his Rome in embers; or in thy arrogance to trample on this ill-fated corpse, as the ungrateful daughter trampled on her father Tarquin's? |
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re : ex-, ex- + salt
re, to leap; see sel- in Indo-European roots.]
exult - feel extreme happiness or elation
exult - to express great joy; "Who cannot exult in Spring?"
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