exultate

English

Verb

exultate (third-person singular simple present exultates, present participle exultating, simple past and past participle exultated)

  1. To exult.
    • 1989, Joyce Carol Oates, American Appetites:
      For her exultating her supremacy, in pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, had cut him out: made him feel not only irrelevant but, so often, in the way; his wife looked at him and felt the obligation of love, for of course she did love him, while another kind of love, physical, instinctual, as intimate as her own flesh, pulled at her.
    • 2013, Louis H. Sullivan, Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings, →ISBN:
      I cannot tell you how my heart expands and exultates within the opening glory of this autumn day.
    • 2016, Wings Of Rhapsody, →ISBN, page 9:
      My heart exultates, thirsts for more.

Derived terms


Latin

Verb

exultāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of exultō
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