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/ɪlˈeɪtəd/ /ɪlˈeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Elate v. t. (past & past part. elated; pres. part. elating)

To raise; to exalt. (R.) "By the potent sun elated high."

To exalt the spirit of; to fill with confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud. "Foolishly elated by spiritual pride." "You ought not be elated at the chance mishaps of your enemies."

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Etymology of 'Elated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Elated" Quotes from Famous Books

... The friends were much elated at its passage over this protest and sent at once for Mrs. Johns to come to Topeka and work for its success in the Senate. She made every possible effort but in vain, the Republicans basing their refusal on its unconstitutionality. There was every reason to believe the ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... I shall write to him. Perhaps you wouldn't mind giving over for a day or two." Grimes yielded at once, and took his spade and measurements away, although Mr. Puddleham fretted a good deal. Mr. Puddleham had been much elated by the prospect of his new Bethel, and had, it must be confessed, received into his mind an idea that it would be a good thing to quarrel with the Vicar under the auspices of the landlord. Fenwick's character had hitherto been too strong for him, and he had been forced into ...

— The Vicar of Bullhampton • Anthony Trollope

... Elated by this victory, King Sancho now determined that his sister Urraca should yield him her strong city of Zamora; but thinking to gain it without force, he asked the Cid to go as his messenger and urge her to peaceably surrender the city. This he did because he knew his sister had long loved ...

— With Spurs of Gold - Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds • Frances Nimmo Greene

... cousins, came to stay at Glen with his son, a young man of twenty. After a few days, the young man took me into one of the conservatories and asked me to marry him. I pointed out that I hardly knew him by sight, and that "he was running hares." He took it extremely well and, much elated, I returned to the house to tell Laura. I found her in tears; she told me Sir David Tennant had asked her to marry him and she had been obliged to refuse. I cheered her up by pointing out that it would have been awkward had we both ...

— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith

... notion that this is a gallant poem which Englishmen will not allow to be forgotten. The great quality of Captain Graves' verse at present is its elated vivacity, which neither fire, nor pain, nor grief can long subdue. Acutely sensitive to all these depressing elements, his animal spirits lift him like an aeroplane, and he is above us in a moment, soaring through clouds of nonsense under a sky of unruffled gaiety. In our old literature, of which ...

— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

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