a. [ad. L. ex(s)ultant-em, pr. pple. of ex(s)ultāre: see EXULT.] Exulting, triumphantly joyful.
1653. H. More, Conject. Cabbal., ii. 42. With such exultant sympathy and joy.
a. 1745. Broome, On Death, 156. The Sun … starts exultant, and renews the day.
1844. Cath. Weekly Instruct., 127. The wild exultant cry.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, II. xxiv. The fierce exultant delight to which he was moved by the idea of perpetual vengeance.
Hence Exultantly adv.
1883. K. W. Hamilton, in Harper’s Mag., 846/2. Margaret’s heart swelled exultantly.
1885. Manch. Exam., 7 Aug., 5/2. It was exultantly proclaimed that the war with Afghanistan would only cost six millions.
