If you exult in a triumph or success that you have had, you feel and show great happiness and pleasure because of it. He was exulting in a win at the show earlier that day Some individual investors exulted at the record I exulted and wept for joy `This is what I've longed for during my entire career,' Kendall exulted. + exultation ex·ul·ta·tion I felt a tremendous sense of relief and exultation. to show that you are very happy and proud, especially because you have succeeded in doing something exult at/in/over (exulter, from exsultare, from saltare )
[ ig-'z< ] (intransitive verb.) 1570. Middle French exulter, from Latin exsultare, literally, to leap up, from ex- + saltare to leap; more at SALTATION.