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/ɪlˈeɪt/ Listen

verb

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

1.

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

2.

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."

adjective

Elate adj.

1.

Lifted up; raised; elevated. "With upper lip elate." "And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes, elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill."

2.

Having the spirits raised by success, or by hope; flushed or exalted with confidence; elated; exultant. "O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate." "Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress."

Synonyms: Puffed up; lofty; proud; haughty; exalted; inspirited; transported; delighted; overjoyed.

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Etymology of 'Elate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... aboard,—if he could sleep,—and murmuring at the last moment the hope of returning the compliment, while the other walked homeward, weary as to the flesh, but, in spite of his sympathy for Jonathan Tinker, very elate in spirit. The truth is,—and however disgraceful to human nature, let the truth still be told,—he had recurred to his primal satisfaction in the man as calamity capable of being used for such and such literary ends, and, while ...

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... ran down to the wharf to enquire as to the health of the Northern Light. The first person I met was the Prophet. He was positively elate. If I were a pantheist I should think him a relative of the northeast wind. The storm of the previous night had been exactly to his liking. All his worst prognostications had been fulfilled, and quite a bit thrown in par dessus le marche. He told me that a tiny, ...

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... Richmond. He was the same loving father to us all, as kind and thoughtful of my mother, who as an invalid, and of us, his children, as if our comfort and happiness were all he had to care for. His great victory did not elate him, so far as one could see. In a letter of July 9th, ...

— Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee • Captain Robert E. Lee, His Son

... of charioteers in the circus rather than another. These two parties raged in every city throughout the empire, and their fury rose in proportion to the number of inhabitants. Justinian favoured the blues, who became so elate with pride, that they trampled on the laws. All ties of friendship, all natural affection, and all relative duties, were extinguished. Whole families were destroyed; and the empire was a scene of anarchy and wild contention. He, who felt himself capable of ...

— A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence • Cornelius Tacitus

... of beauty, when my way I go; No single joy or sorrow do I know: Elate for freedom leaps the starry power, The life which passes mourns ...

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