exultory

comparative more exultory · superlative most exultory

1. Showing exultation.

   The resolutions were inconsistent with themselves ; eulogistic and almost exultory at the outset, they became denunciatory at the end.

   1856, The Annual Register, or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1855, London: J. Dodsley, page 98

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   As for the Manner in Writing This, I rather choſe to imitate the Ovidian Freedom and Latitude, than the Reſervedneſs of Virgil, in an Argument where Deſcription was to have no ſmall Share, Paſſion to be Predominant, the Cataſtrophe Exultory.

   1707, Nahum Tate, The Muse's Memorial of the Happy Recovery of the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington, From a Dangerous Sickness, in the Year 1706, a Congratulary Poem., page 22

   Pat sings "Tutti Frutti" on some unspecified black-and-white TV show in front of a stylized jukebox stage set, intoning the words with a croony formality that totally contradicts their exultory intent, jerking his body in an uncomfortable approximation of dancing, one set of fingers snapping in an up-and-down motion while the other spazzes from side to side.

   2006, Karen Schoemer, Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair With '50s Pop Music, New York: Free Press, →ISBN, page 70