The Only Use of
exuberant
in
The Giver
- The audience applause, which was enthusiastic at each Naming, rose in an exuberant swell when one parental pair, glowing with pride, took a male newchild and heard him named Caleb.†
p. 44.1
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.