exult at/in/over• He gazed for a long time at the Prime Minister's emptychair, exulting in his own immensepower.• I have been very happy in my work, and I have exulted in my play.• He exulted in the communion of blood and water.• I threw myself into my work as never before, exulting in the freedom and protection it gave me.• But she knew it couldn't and so she relaxed, exulting in the magic freedom of now.• Sedge warblers sang exulting in the willow scrub.
Originexult
(1500-1600)Frenchexulter, from Latinexsultare, from saltare“to jump”