Both Uses of
exult
in
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
- The next moment she was tapping at her husband's dressing-room door, and as Anne followed her up stairs, she was in time for the whole conversation, which began with Mary's saying, in a tone of great exultation— "I mean to go with you, Charles, for I am of no more use at home than you are.†
Chpt 7exultation = extreme happiness or elation
- She might not wonder, but she must sigh that her father should feel no degradation in his change, should see nothing to regret in the duties and dignity of the resident landholder, should find so much to be vain of in the littlenesses of a town; and she must sigh, and smile, and wonder too, as Elizabeth threw open the folding-doors and walked with exultation from one drawing-room to the other, boasting of their space; at the possibility of that woman, who had been mistress of Kellynch Hall, finding extent to be proud of between two walls, perhaps thirty feet asunder.†
Chpt 15 *
Definition:
feel or express extreme happiness or elation