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exultory

exultory adjective: showing exultation.

Adjective

exultory (comparative more exultory, superlative most exultory)

  1. Showing exultation.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of exultory

comparativemore exultory
superlativemost exultory

Origin of exultory

From exult + -ory.

Questions about exultory

What does exultory mean?
Exultory means showing exultation.
What part of speech is exultory?
Exultory is an adjective.

Words near exultory in the dictionary

  1. Exultet
  2. exulteth
  3. exulting
  4. exultingly
  5. exultings
  6. exultory
  7. exults
  8. Exum
  9. Exuma
  10. Exumas
  11. exumbrella

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