Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who triumphs or rejoices for victory; one who is victorious.
- noun One who was honored with a triumph in Rome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. Antiq.) One who was honored with a triumph; a victor.
- noun One who triumphs or rejoices for victory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical One who was honoured with a
triumph ; avictor . - noun One who
triumphs orrejoices invictory .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The seuenth, that he shall come fro thence like a triumpher, to iudge the quicke and the deade.
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But the triumpher in Israel will not spare, and will not be moved to repentance: for he is not a man that he should repent.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Florian returns a triumpher from his campaign -- two of my trusty blood-hounds watch the road to give me timely note of his approach.
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But the triumpher in Israel will not spare, and will not be moved to repentance: for he is not a man that he should repent.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 09: 1 Kings The Challoner Revision
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But the triumpher in Israel will not spare, and will not be moved to repentance: for he is not a man that he should repent.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Young Sir John Oxon's visit to his relative at Eldershawe being at an end, he returned to town, and remaining there through a few weeks of fashionable gaiety, won new reputations as a triumpher over the female heart.
A Lady of Quality 1896
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Young Sir John Oxon's visit to his relative at Eldershawe being at an end, he returned to town, and remaining there through a few weeks of fashionable gaiety, won new reputations as a triumpher over the female heart.
A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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Her eyes glared with the fury of a maniac, and, with a horrid laugh, she exclaimed, I have slain thee, insolent triumpher in my love and agonies!
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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Pierre, however, noting here and there fragments of the Sacred Way, now turning, now running down, and now ascending with their pavement of silex indented by the chariot-wheels, thought of the triumphs, of the ascent of the triumpher, so sorely shaken as his chariot jolted over that rough pavement of glory.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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So was not the only real triumpher himself, the Baron -- he who laid out five millions of francs on buying a scion of the aristocracy for his daughter, he who was the personification of the sovereign _bourgeoisie_, who controlled public fortune, and was determined to part with nothing, even were he attacked with bombs?
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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