exultating

exultating

1. present participle of exultate

exultating (comparative more exultating, superlative most exultating)

1. Extremely happy; rapturous.
   • 1845, The ruling passions - Volume 3, page 308:

     ...certain it is, their laudable curiosity once gratified, they were led still further to pursue their speculations, and still remained unsatisified till they had heard the naive exclamations, and witnessed the animated features under every variety of expression, from wonder and admiration, to exultating satisfaction in the dawning consciousness of power — a dawn that promised speedy progression to broad daylight, with the wild Irish girl, in all points connected with the influence of her charms.

   • 1850, The Pulpit of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church:

     The apostle looked forward to a meeting with the righteous Judge with exultating expectation, as being worthy, in the gospel sense.

   • 2000, Carlos del Pulgar Sabín, Artists Painters: Regionalism III, page 256:

     And on the walls, strange paintings, of an exultating colouring, of paradoxical lines, since they showed freshness and an indefinable antiquity.