[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. That exults; exultant, triumphantly joyful.
1757. Dyer, Fleece, IV. 689. Th’ exulting muse shall then … her flight renew.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng. (1858), I. ii. 166. An exulting expectation of a dissolution of the church establishment.
1876. J. H. Newman, Hist. Sk., I. I. i. 42. Solon … was asked by the exulting monarch who was the happiest of men, making answer that no one could be called happy before his death.
2. nonce-use. Upspringing, towering, lofty. Cf. EXULT 1.
1798. Bloomfield, Farmer’s Boy, Autumn, 318. To climb the woodland hill’s exulting brow.
Hence Exultingly adv., in an exulting manner.
1661. Boyle, Style of Script. (1675), 244. They exultingly told the woman, Now we believe [etc.].
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 296. The savage … returned exultingly to his country-men, to the shame and regret of the traders.
1837. Hood, Drinking Song, ii. Let topers of grape-juice exultingly vapour.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 202. In London it was announced exultingly that [etc.].
