All 5 Uses of
exult
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- Professor Krempe often asked me, with a sly smile, how Cornelius Agrippa went on, whilst M. Waldman expressed the most heartfelt exultation in my progress.†
p. 51.8 *exultation = extreme happiness or elation
- The air was cold, and the rain again began to descend; we entered the hut, the fiend with an air of exultation, I with a heavy heart and depressed spirits.†
p. 104.9
- I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph; clapping my hands, I exclaimed, 'I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.'†
p. 144.8
- I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now burning with the idea of their effects.†
p. 214.6exulting = feeling or expressing extreme happiness or elation
- I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.†
p. 225.8
Definition:
feel or express extreme happiness or elation