exultingly

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English

Etymology

From exulting +‎ -ly.

Adverb

exultingly (comparative more exultingly, superlative most exultingly)

  1. In an exulting manner; with joy at a success or triumph.
    • 1889, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (transl.), Agamemnon, page 56 in The House of Atreus, 2nd edition,
      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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