exultingly en · ADV
Etymology
Etymology tree English exulting Middle English -ly English -ly English exultingly From exulting + -ly.
Meanings
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In an exulting manner; with joy at a success or triumph.
She laughed exultingly, and the boy felt cold and strangely troubled.
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 163:Hark—even now she cries exultingly The vengeful cry that tells of battle turned—
1889, “Agamemnon”, in Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., The House of Atreus, 2nd edition, page 56:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more exultingly | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most exultingly | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |