triumphantly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From triumphant + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]triumphantly (comparative more triumphantly, superlative most triumphantly)
- In a triumphant manner.
- 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
- Hath not the same fierce heirdom given
Rome to the Caesar—this to me?
The heritage of a kingly mind,
And a proud spirit which hath striven
Triumphantly with human kind.
- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 53:
- “Another double,” said the old lady: triumphantly making a memorandum of the circumstance, by placing one sixpence and a battered halfpenny, under the candlestick.
Translations
[edit]in a triumphant manner
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References
[edit]- "triumphantly" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.