exultingly

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Etymology[edit]

From exulting +‎ -ly.

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exultingly (comparative more exultingly, superlative most exultingly)

  1. In an exulting manner; with joy at a success or triumph.
    • 1889, “Agamemnon”, in Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., The House of Atreus, 2nd edition, page 56:
      Hark—even now she cries exultingly
      The vengeful cry that tells of battle turned—
    • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 163:
      She laughed exultingly, and the boy felt cold and strangely troubled.

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