22 November 2017
exult
[ig-zuhlt]
verb (used without object)
1. to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; be highly elated or jubilant:
They exulted over their victory.
2. Obsolete. to leap, especially for joy.
Origin of exult
Latin
1560-1570; < Latin ex(s)ultāre to leap up, equivalent to ex- ex-1+ -sultāre (combining form of saltāre to leap)
Related forms
exultingly, adverb
self-exulting, adjective
Can be confused
exalt, exult.
Synonyms
1. delight, glory, revel.
Dictionary.com
Examples from the Web for exult
Historical Examples
I exult in my freedom from a self-reproach, which would have been altogether insupportable under the kindness of which you speak.’
The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete
Madame du Hausset, an “Unknown English Girl” and the Princess Lamballe
But we would he knew that the strong do not exult in their strength, nor the wise in their wisdom.
The Book of Khalid
Ameen Rihani
The big woodsman, his rebellion once started, seemed to exult in it.
The Rainy Day Railroad War
Holman Day
For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony.
Personality in Literature
Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
They are desperate, then, and seem to exult in devilry of all kinds.
A Final Reckoning
G. A. Henty
Inhuman methods for inhuman foes, Who feed on horrors and exult in woes.
Custer, and Other Poems.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But I shall not let you exult over my falling into one of these well-laid traps.
Fairy Fingers
Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
It is a joyous spirit which causes “the bones of man to exult.”
Spontaneous Activity in Education
Maria Montessori
Yon demon,” cried he, “shall at least not live to exult over our death.
Wood Rangers
Mayne Reid
But the Incorruptible, ever envious and jealous, would not allow him to exult too soon.
The Elusive Pimpernel
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Anagram
El Tux
Today’s quote
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
– Anthony Burgess
On this day
22 November 1819 – birth of Mary Ann Evans. One of England’s greatest novelists, she published under the name ‘George Eliot’ in order to be taken seriously. Some of her novels include ‘Adam Bede’, ‘Mill on the Floss’, ‘Silas Marner’, and ‘Daniel Deronda’. Her novel, ‘Middlemarch’, was described as the greatest novel in the English language. Died 22 December 1880.
22 November 1906 – the use of the morse code signal ‘SOS’ is implemented as a global distress call. The SOS signal is three dots, three dashes and three dots
(· · · — — — · · ·)
22 November 1963 – assassination of John F. Kennedy. 35th president of the United States. Born 29 May 1917.
22 November 1963 – death of Aldous Huxley, English writer. Most famous for his vision of the future, ‘Brave New World’, as well as his work ‘The Doors of Perception’, based on his use of psychedelic drugs. Jim Morrison named his 60’s psychedelic rock band, ‘The Doors’ after Huxley’s book. Born 26 July 1894.
22 November 1963 – death of Clive Staples (C.S.) Lewis, Irish novelist, author of ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ and ‘The Screwtape Letters’. Born 29 November 1898.
22 November 1990 – UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher forced to resign by her own Cabinet who refused to endorse her as leader. She had come to power in 1979 and had become known as the ‘Iron Lady’. She is the longest-serving UK Prime Minister and the only female to hold the post. She fought numerous battles with unions over her economic and deregulation reforms. She introduced a ‘Community Charge’ or ‘Poll Tax’, which replaced rates with a flat-tax rate on every adult. It was extremely unpopular even within her own Cabinet and was a crucial catalyst for her disendorsement and subsequent resignation.
22 November 1993 – death of Anthony Burgess, English writer. Most famous for his dystopian novel, ‘The Clockwork Orange’, which Stanley Kubrick made into a controversial movie. Born 25 February 1917.