exult

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to express great joy

   Who cannot exult in Spring?

2. 2
   verb

   To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).

   I took a deep breath; a locomotive howled across-the darkness, Mobile-bound. So were we. I took off my shirt and exulted.

Simplified etymology

Exult entered English in the mid-16th century and ultimately derives from Latin salire, “to leap.” Its underlying sense is “jump up.”

From Middle French exulter, from Latin exsultō, frequentative of exsiliō (“jump up”), from ex- + saliō (“jump, leap”).

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