Both Uses of
exuberant
in
Gone with the Wind
- Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all the color from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiring energy.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- It wasn't hide-bound and stick-in-themuddish like the older towns and it had a brash exuberance that matched her own.†
Chpt 3.28
Definitions:
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(1)
(exuberant) joyously unrestrained
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, exuberance can refer to unrestrained enthusiasm that is not necessarily joyous (as in "the wild exuberance of a cavalry charge"). In another less common sense, it can refer to plants growing in extreme abundance.