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Definition of 'elate'English
Verb
(elat)
To make joyful or proud.
To lift up; raise; elevate.
Adjective
( head)
elated; exultant
* Alexander Pope
- O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, / Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate .
* Mrs. H. H. Jackson
- Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
(obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
* Fenton
- with upper lip elate
* Sir W. Jones
- And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate , / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
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