jubilance

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Our country's economy cannot afford the luxury of a post-election honeymoon period and extended jubilance or celebratory cheer.

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  1. Gladness; exultation; jubilation. She saw a jubilance in every sunrise, a sober sadness in every sunset. George MacDonald, What's Mine's Mine, xxxv. The hymn rose with a solemn jubilance, filling the little house. M. N. Murfree, Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains, x.

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  • Voices were raised in tones of jubilance, and occasional shouts of victory burst from the party. —  Wit'ch's Storm
  • In its place, there was only hope, and joy, and jubilance. —  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary
  • AJS special issue, Schnittker rebuts the "set point" theory of happiness that has been espoused by some psychologists: the notion that there's not much we can do about our innate levels of jubilance or melancholy. —  Integral Options Cafe
  • So it should surprise no one that the nation's current financial mess is being trumpeted with the same jubilance, presented with the same fraudulence, and in every sense of the word, exploited shamelessly as a boon for the Democrats who, if the truth is told, were the cause of the problem in the first place. —  ChronWatch - Articles
  • So it should surprise no one that the nation†™ s current financial mess is being trumpeted with the same jubilance, presented with the same fraudulence, and in every sense of the word, exploited shamelessly as a boon for the Democrats who, if the truth is told, were the cause of the problem in the first place. —  redstatesusa
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