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Exultation vs Rejoicing - What's the difference?

exultation | rejoicing |

As nouns the difference between exultation and rejoicing

is that exultation is the act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph while rejoicing is an act of showing joy.

As a verb rejoicing is

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exultation

English

Noun

  • The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph.

    • rejoicing

    English

    Verb

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    • Noun

  • An act of showing joy.
  • :There was much rejoicing when the good news finally arrived.
  • * 1842 , Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Disowned (page 286)
    • But what are your foot-ploddings, your ambulating rejoicings , to the free etherealities which our courser's light bound and exultant spurnings of the dull earth bring to the spirit!