Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Exult

Exult , intransitive verb

[Latin exultare, exsultare, exultatum, exsultatum, to leap vigorously, to exult, intens. from exsilire to spring out or up; ex out + salire to spring, leap: compare French exulter. See Salient.]

To be in high spirits; figuratively, to leap for joy; to rejoice in triumph or exceedingly; to triumph; as, an exulting heart.
An exulting countenance. — Bancroft
The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe. — Pope