exuberate
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Englisch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin exuberatus, past participle of exuberare. See exuberant (“adjective”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]exuberate (third-person singular simple present exuberates, present participle exuberating, simple past and past participle exuberated)
- (obsolete) To abound; to be in great abundance.
- 1648 August 16 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Robert Boyle, Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God. […] [Seraphick Love], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], published 1659, →OCLC:
- that vast confluence and immensity, that exuberates in God
- (now rare) To develop into (something), by an exuberance of growth.
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 1140:
- ‘He might perhaps have become one, if he had had time to ripen, (smiling.) He might have exuberated into an Atheist.’
- To delight, to make exuberant
- 2007 November 3, [email protected], “Train Your Genitals to Answer your Phone”, in alt.recovery.aa[1] (Usenet):
- It's fun, thrilling, and exuberating.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]exūberāte