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Definition of jubilation:

  • (noun) a feeling of extreme joy

Sentence Examples:

The end is a revel of jubilation.

That clarion of jubilation always delighted him.

Joy and jubilation pervade a whole district.

Napier repressed the jubilation crying out in his heart.

Shouted the child with shameless and barbaric jubilation.

Were accomplished there was great jubilation among the Confederates.

There was only one blot on the general jubilation.

The same jubilation ran all along the line of victors.

There was a jubilation supper at the manse, you understand.

This cry of jubilation was uttered in a sepulchral whisper.

Hitchcock and President Taft display so much luxuriant jubilation.

In the forecastle, too, there was great jubilation that evening.

Outside the fort the creoles were beginning a noise of jubilation.

When their jubilation had somewhat subsided, they measured their quarry.

The Place's atmosphere tingled with jubilation over the child's cure.

Torn between jubilation and agony she writhed in the darkness.

In the hour of national jubilation they supplied the one discordant note.

This was full of precious conceits and was received with jubilation.

It had gone with struggle, fury, jubilation, terror, death, and subjection.

There was no jubilation, no bonfires, no illuminations to celebrate the victory.

Their mood, however, was less one of jubilation than of reverent thankfulness.

When they landed on French soil, they were received with great jubilation.

There was much jubilation among the watchers on deck at the prospect.

Wilder, in the seclusion of his own home, danced a jig of jubilation.

Below us in Lucerne itself there was a hubbub and a great jubilation.

And the delighted Indian proceeded to carry out these orders with much jubilation.

Often she scarcely knew how to muffle the jubilation in her own heart.

Cried Frank in wild jubilation, as the transport was made fast to the wharf.

Never before did I see my countrymen under such intense excitement and jubilation as now.

It seemed as though the very trees by the wayside joined in the limitless jubilation.

The news ran like wildfire through the country, and was everywhere received with jubilation.

The jubilation with which the bridal party was there received was no doubt entirely genuine.

No doubt all the great poets have now and then broken forth in lyrical jubilation.

It stands as a foil between the gaiety of the Scherzo and the jubilation of the Finale.

The jubilation of the victors spent itself, as did the disappointment of those who were vanquished.

We'll bring the melon and the typewriter and the picture along, and have a jubilation.

They ran their fingers through it incredulously; they danced about the cave in the wildest jubilation.

Gold and blue were the commoner colors: the jubilation was greater over red or green or purple.

Great was the jubilation while the effigy of the traitor was being consumed in the flames.

If his wooing had run the ordinary course, the reason for half his jubilation would have disappeared.

Lyon got into his evening clothes with a jubilation that does not always accompany an evening call.

It was a sad day out there at the old palace; in the capital was spasmodic jubilation.

All excitement and jubilation subsided as the deep and tremendous meaning of the day made itself felt.

Marjorie uttered a kind of exultant crow and performed a funny little dance of jubilation about the room.

There would be plenty of blame, some jubilation, and, she felt sure, not a little sympathy withal.

On the contrary, they executed that difficult acrobatic feat known as going off their heads, with jubilation.

Procession into the capital; shouts of jubilation and wreaths of flowers, for the victor and his men.

And as if the clouds knew she had come, they burst into a fresh jubilation of thunderous light.

And now that its fierceness was over, the jubilation in the softer voices of the storm became audible.

Their whistles bellowed jubilation while Captain Jim signalled the Resolute: "Keep her going for Key West."

A wild yell of jubilation went up suddenly from two dozen throats and a pandemonium of joy ensued.

It has filled us all with jubilation, for the colossal, and at the same time the unexpected, overpowers.

An inaugural ceremony was performed upon the making of a member, which terminated with a jubilation from the President.

In the school, meanwhile, there was jubilation and thanksgiving over the fact that Jonah had a bad headache.

His mouth twitched at the corners and his amazingly clear eyes were lit with an almost boyish jubilation.

Juliana had found the means of making herself welcome, and her marriage a cause of unmixed jubilation in her family.

An hour brought reassurance, however, and with it jubilation as the outpost of the eastern world took on corporate form.

And when his jubilation at this had subsided, he went over in memory all that had just taken place.

Then the bells almost turned over in their fury of jubilation, and every cannon in the city bellowed out.

Their advent led to a certain amount of jubilation on the part of those freshmen who were fond of the game.

Yet it galled them to see him quietly put in the vacant place, and to hear the jubilation on every hand.

Breakfast, that had begun so dully, ended amid sober jubilation, and all hands turned immediately to prepare the boat.

Oh, how I hate the rich, and with what joy, jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction would I strangle them all!

And they were full of jubilation on the day when the colossus fell, and buried some of them in his fall!

It was not that he was doing a kindly and neighborly deed; there was much more in his jubilation than that.

Henrik lay in the arms of his mother, surrounded by his sisters, who, amid all their jubilation, had tearful eyes.

Suddenly the tables were empty; everyone rushed towards the lighted compartments of the train, and a scene of indescribable jubilation followed as train after train of armed men rushed by into the night.

That it has fulfilled all the expectations aroused in that year of triumph and jubilation will surprise no one who knows that absolute and lasting success is attained only in Utopias, never in practical politics.

Unfortunately the fever, in addition to making my legs shaky, had taken a large slice off the normal amount of pluck that one ordinarily possesses, so that in proportion as his jubilation increased mine diminished.

Everyone had enemies; the most popular and beloved girl of her acquaintance had been prosecuted for some fraud over the insurance of jewelry, and a chorus of jubilation had gone up from these smooth-faced, false friends.

I heard from afar the jubilation of the bells; I contemplated the towers of the Cathedral, secular witnesses of this ceremony always the same and yet so different in history, time, ideas, morals, usages, and customs.

I believe a strong committee is forming, and that we shall have a scientific jubilation on a large scale; but I have purposely kept in the background, and confined myself, like Bismarck, to the business of "honest broker."

His heart continually repeated it with loud jubilation, his lips murmured it softly in response, while, knowing nothing, seeing nothing of the outside world, he sped along through the alleys and over the squares of the garden.

It was a week of painful suspense, broken only by brief outbursts of jubilation when some particularly formidable examination, that everyone had worried over, seemingly to the point of gray hairs, turned out better than had been expected.

Naturally we were all thrown into a high state of jubilation at the receipt of this intelligence; for it promised us a slice of good luck of such magnitude as very seldom fell to the lot of a single cruiser.

They compromised with the Marquis by taking the bonds of the Company in exchange for their stock, and retired with inner jubilation at having been able to withdraw from a perilous situation with skins more or less intact.

Such practices always exist even under the most rigid discipline in great armies, and the jubilation of this march was such that human nature asserted itself in the license of warfare more than on most other occasions.

Sometimes the invalid got well in spite of everything, and great was the jubilation of the tribe; on the other hand if death came and took a victim it was easy for the medicine man to find some excuse.

They had slept soundly, and, if any haunting recollection of their experience had taken form in a dream, there was no trace of anything but jubilation, as they dressed and breakfasted to an accompaniment of jest and laughter.

Many of the friends of the murdered physician remained in their headquarters until the arrest had been fully accomplished, and there was considerable jubilation when the information that Sullivan had been placed behind the bars was received.

I heard from afar the jubilation of the bells, I contemplated the towers of the Cathedral, secular witnesses of that ceremony which is always the same and yet so different through history, the times, ideas, manners, usages and customs.

Monday afternoon when there was just the promise of rain in the air the pine woods were so friendly a place that all the birds flocked in and seemed to be full of soft and gentle jubilation because of this promise.

The former is selected both to soften, by the joy of victory, the sorrow felt for the loss of a dear relative, and to check the jubilation that the enemy would naturally feel and frequently express on such an occasion.

Noel, whose holidays were drawing to a close, accompanied him to the station in a state of high jubilation, albeit Holmes was in charge of the motor and there was not the faintest chance of his being allowed to take the wheel.

This was all Hebrew and Sanskrit to the young people, who smiled to each other in their ignorance, but were touched by her emotion, and surrounded her with their happiness and their love, a very atmosphere of tenderness and jubilation.

By gazing on this mirror, there springs up speedily, in one of loving and pious disposition, an inward jubilation of the heart; for by this is meant a joy which no tongue can tell, though it pours with might through heart and soul.

It was a kind thought that prompted the organization of a monster treat for the boys and girls of the poorer classes in this season of general jubilation, and equally kind was the interest at once taken in the matter by the heads of our Royal house.

Yet they excited not one atom of jubilation in me, for they were uttered in a tone of such coldness and indifference that I felt as certain as I could be of anything that it was wholly of herself, and not at all of me, that the speaker was thinking.