Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With elation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb With elation.

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  • adverb In an elated manner

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Examples

  • After the International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge announced the result, a few dozen South Korean delegates elatedly waved their national flags.

    South Korea Wins 2018 Olympic Bid Jenny Gross 2011

  • During your speech just now, you spoke elatedly about the upcoming Obama era.

    The African in Him 2009

  • During your speech just now, you spoke elatedly about the upcoming Obama era.

    The African in Him 2009

  • They are as goners as those who went and are gone, all non-surviving the same except for individual places in the sequence ... like concentration-camp inmates elatedly counting the day's droppings and corpses as if tomorrow isn't their turn next.

    Shock and awe (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • "It's perfect!" he murmured elatedly, as he watched the scarlet liquid bubbling through the unit.

    I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010

  • "The interceptor drone has made contact," Bud said elatedly.

    I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010

  • WATERFRONT HIDE-OUT IF PALI told the truth, Tom thought elatedly, he might get to the bottom of the mystery!

    Golden State 2010

  • McKinley too spoke elatedly of “the great achievement.”

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • McKinley too spoke elatedly of “the great achievement.”

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • While he was thinking thus elatedly, he remembered that he wanted some clean linen in the morning.

    Sister Carrie 2004

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