EXULTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exulting mean? 

• EXULTING (adjective)
  The adjective EXULTING has 1 sense:

1. joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success

  Familiarity information: EXULTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXULTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success

Synonyms:

exultant; exulting; jubilant; prideful; rejoicing; triumphal; triumphant

Context example:

a triumphant shout

Similar:

elated (exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits)

 Context examples 

Beth was there, laying the snowy piles smoothly on the shelves and exulting over the goodly array.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And this address seemed to satisfy all the fondest wishes of the mother's heart, for she received him with the most delighted and exulting affection.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Well, Mr. Knightley, and so you actually saw the letter; well—“It was short—merely to announce—but cheerful, exulting, of course.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now burning with the idea of their effects.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I stretched out my hands, exulting in the freshness of these sensations; and in the act, I was suddenly aware that I had lost in stature.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He saw them all, fight after fight, himself always whipped and Cheese-Face exulting over him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was thrilling and exulting in ways new to him and greater to him than any he had known before.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Not to lengthen these particulars, I need only add, that she made a handsome provision for all my possible wants during my month of trial; that Steerforth, to my great disappointment and hers too, did not make his appearance before she went away; that I saw her safely seated in the Dover coach, exulting in the coming discomfiture of the vagrant donkeys, with Janet at her side; and that when the coach was gone, I turned my face to the Adelphi, pondering on the old days when I used to roam about its subterranean arches, and on the happy changes which had brought me to the surface.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She had then been exulting in her engagement to Thorpe, and was now chiefly anxious to avoid his sight, lest he should engage her again; for though she could not, dared not expect that Mr. Tilney should ask her a third time to dance, her wishes, hopes, and plans all centred in nothing less.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It was a done thing; Mr. Elton was to go, and never had his broad handsome face expressed more pleasure than at this moment; never had his smile been stronger, nor his eyes more exulting than when he next looked at her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)