The state or quality of exulting; triumphant joy and rejoicing.
Variant of exultance, using the -ancy suffix instead of -ance. Both forms emerged in Middle English and Early Modern English, with -ancy sometimes preferred in scientific or formal contexts.
English offers two almost identical words — exultance and exultancy — showing how our language sometimes creates synonyms just because different suffixes became fashionable in different eras, creating redundancy that linguists find both wasteful and charming.
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