Falter vs Exultation - What's the difference?
falter | exultation |
unsteadiness.
To waver or be unsteady.
* Wiseman
(ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
* Byron
* Milton
To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
* I. Taylor
To stumble.
(figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
*
To hesitate in purpose or action.
* Shakespeare
To cleanse or sift, as barley.
The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph.
As nouns the difference between falter and exultation
is that falter is butterfly while exultation is the act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph.falter
English
Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- He found his legs falter .
- And here he faltered forth his last farewell.
- With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
- Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters .
- And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter .
- Ere her native king / Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.
- (Halliwell)