- a variation of exultation.
exultancy
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"There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride and exultancy," novelist Thomas Wolfe rhapsodized in 1935.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the first time, the word brought exultancy to him, a lifting of the spirit.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
"She smiled!" he said, and caught his breath, with a kind of astonished exultancy.
From My Friend Prospero by Henry Harland
She had turned her frank gaze to Hugh in mingled wonder, exultancy, and distress.
From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable
This event he anticipated with a thrill, with the exultancy over change which is common of all life.
From A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London
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