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  • adjective Proud in one's belief or culture, and having a feeling of superiority.
  • noun A triumphalist person.

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Examples

  • Finally, definition of the word triumphalist, as I understand it:

    The Pajamas Media blogging enterprise has collapsed. Ann Althouse 2009

  • And these ideas, which are typically identified as triumphalist (my way or the highway), still govern much of the ideological framework of the national identity.

    Stephen Marshall: Apres Hannity, Le Deluge 2010

  • And these ideas, which are typically identified as triumphalist (my way or the highway), still govern much of the ideological framework of the national identity.

    Stephen Marshall: Apres Hannity, Le Deluge 2010

  • And these ideas, which are typically identified as triumphalist (my way or the highway), still govern much of the ideological framework of the national identity.

    Stephen Marshall: Apres Hannity, Le Deluge 2010

  • A spokesman for Ennahdha had said Mr. Ghannouchi's return to Tunisia wouldn't be "triumphalist," but at Tunis airport, an ecstatic crowd of supporters chanted slogans, waved flags and sang the national anthem in their first show of strength since the start of the demonstrations that ousted autocratic former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.

    Tunisian Islamic Leader Returns Angus McDowall 2011

  • Cosatu said it would no longer take a "triumphalist" approach to

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • OWEN: But does Alistair Campbell have the right to say this in a kind of triumphalist manner in that his reputation had been impugned and he feels that Hutton cleared it?

    CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2004 2004

  • OWEN: But does Alistair Campbell have the right to say this in a kind of triumphalist manner in that his reputation had been impugned and he feels that Hutton cleared it?

    CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2004 2004

  • But even he hedged, noting that the song's "triumphalist" nature might contribute to the violence.

    Our Strange World 2010

  • But even he hedged, noting that the song's "triumphalist" nature might contribute to the violence.

    Our Strange World bcotx@yahoo.com 2010

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