All 3 Uses of
exuberant
in
1776, by McCullough
- Among the Virginia gentry who had taken up fox hunting with an exuberance no less than to be found on the country estates of England, Washington stood out.†
p. 47.9 *
- But the exuberance of the moment, or any thoughts that grand pronouncements and the toppling of symbolic monuments were sufficient to change the course of history, were quickly dashed in dramatic fashion three days later, on July 12.†
p. 138.1
- "The finest day in the world," wrote an exuberant Archibald Robertson.†
p. 104.9
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.