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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
elation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
feel
▪ But he felt no elation about it.
▪ He had always felt the same elation at the end of his long tours abroad.
▪ He felt both guilt and elation.
▪ She felt elation and sadness all in the same instant.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As he spoke you could hear the elation in his voice.
▪ The troops sense of elation at the victory was not to last.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he felt no elation about it.
▪ From the moment they began to climb, Converse began to experience a curious elation.
▪ She heard her cue and saw the curious elation on Stephen's face.
▪ The elation had worn off; such feelings did not survive the heat.
▪ The initial elation the rest of us were experiencing was as far away as her childhood.
▪ The tanks backed away from the fences, the crowds passed from the precipice of death to the summits of elation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elation

Elation \E*la"tion\, n. [L. elatio. See Elate.] A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. ``Felt the elation of triumph.''
--Sir W. Scott.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
elation

late 14c., "inordinate self-esteem, arrogance," especially "self-satisfaction over one's accomplishments or qualities, vainglory" (early 15c.), from Old French elacion "elation, conceit, arrogance, vanity," from Latin elationem (nominative elatio) "a carrying out, a lifting up," noun of action from elatus "elevated," form used as past participle of efferre "carry out, bring out, bring forth, take away," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + latus (see oblate (n.)), past participle of ferre "carry" (see infer). Metaphoric sense of "a lifting of spirits" was in Latin and has always been the principal meaning in English. More positive sense of "buoyancy, joyfulness" is from 1750 in English.

Wiktionary
elation

n. 1 An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism. 2 A feeling of joy and pride. 3 (cx geometry English) A collineation that fixes all points on a line (called its axis) and all lines though a point on the axis (called its center).

WordNet
elation
  1. n. an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression [ant: depression]

  2. a feeling of joy and pride [syn: high spirits]

Wikipedia
Elation

Elation is an emotion of happiness.

Elation may also refer to:

  • Carnival Elation, cruise ship
  • A type of collineation in perspective geometry where the center lies on the axis
  • Elation (album), a 2012 studio album by the band Great White
Elation (album)

Elation is the twelfth studio album by the American hard rock band Great White, released in May 2012. It is the first Great White studio album to feature vocalist Terry Ilous. Additionally, it is the first one without original vocalist Jack Russell.

The album was announced on 18 March 2012, for a release on 18 May in Europe and 22 May in North America on Frontiers Records. It will also be released in Japan. Elation was produced, recorded and mixed by Michael Lardie and Mark Kendall, the band's two guitarists.

Usage examples of "elation".

The Ampersand troops, who had memorized every detail of that layout, stared in astonishment and elation.

Where the public feels knee-jerk fright, Cyfer expresses hushed elation.

So when the word had reached him that Boba Fett was dead, dissolved in the digestive secretions of the Sarlacc beast, a combination of elation and frustration had welled up inside him.

And the way the driver is hurling her about in the back is adding to her elation, as though she was at a fun fair on the Roller Ghoster, which used to come to Highbury Fields: Roll up, roll up, Roller Ghoster, fast ride, fast ride, down the hill, Roller Ghoster.

A sudden panic had gripped the leading french grenadiers who were giving ground to the vengeful redcoats, but Loup felt nothing but elation.

When Pilau backed his brutish vehicle to the cart, Lovett saw an excited exchange between his friends and hurried to them, wondering what their elation was all about.

From this pinnacle of elation and pride they were precipitated to the abyss of despondence or dejection, by the account of the miscarriage at St.

Her initial elation at being trusted with his correspondence, at being installed in his very own chair at the polished walnut helm of Rackham Perfumeries, has been spoilt by his frighteningly volatile moods.

Sumomo reaching endlessly in her sleeve for the next shuriken, seeing only the great enemy lying helpless and his dimwitted whore who had caused this unnecessary conclusion gaping at her, a pillar of fear --but feeling no fear herself, only elation, sure that this was her zenith, the moment she had been born for and had trained all her life for, and that now, invincible champion of the shishi, she would conquer and, dying, live in legend forever .

She felt grim elation when she finally murmured to Spooner to slow down the speed of the sedan.

Marillier dwelt on this thought, in spite of his reluctance to look at the fetich and ascertain for himself how much of life and power remained in it, a sense of superphysical elation filled him.

The tribute was one Adams would quote repeatedly in letters, and understandably, given his elation and the spirit of the moment.

The sudden thrust causes my flesh-organ to sag and grow dazed in its fluid, but its long presence has taught my mechanical circuits how to respond, and I can still feel elation athough the organ is half-asleep.

As the import of his words became apparent to Carleton, the clubman smiled in elation.

Richard Nixon has been broken, whipped and castrated all at once, but even for me there is no real crank or elation in having been a front-row spectator at the final scenes, the Deathwatch, the first time in American history that a president has been chased out of the White House and cast down in the ditch with all the other geeks and common criminals.