Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 25, 2012

jubilate \JOO-buh-leyt\, verb:

1. To show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.
2. To celebrate a jubilee or joyful occasion.

Though this sudden setback of the plague was as welcome as it was unlooked-for, our townsfolk were in no hurry to jubilate.
-- Albert Camus, "The Plague"

This would enable me to jubilate like a normal person, knowing why.
-- Samuel Beckett, "The Unnameable"

Jubilate derives from the Latin word jūbil- meaning "to shout."

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