The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triumph \Tri"umph\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Triumphed; p. pr. & vb. n. Triumphing.] [L. triumphare: cf. F. triompher. See Triumph, n.]
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To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.
How long shall the wicked triumph?
--Ps. xciv. 3.Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you That triumph thus upon my misery!
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To obtain victory; to be successful; to prevail.
Triumphing over death, and chance, and thee, O Time.
--Milton.On this occasion, however, genius triumphed.
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To be prosperous; to flourish.
Where commerce triumphed on the favoring gales.
--Trumbull. To play a trump card. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.
Triumphing \Tri"umph*ing\, a. Having or celebrating a triumph; victorious; triumphant. -- Tri"umph*ing*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
n. A display of triumph. vb. (present participle of triumph English)
Usage examples of "triumphing".
Three vials of the tears which daemons weep When virtuous spirits through the gate of Death Pass triumphing over the thorns of life, Sceptres and crowns, mitres and swords and snares, Trampling in scorn, like Him and Socrates.
Invictus was the god of the triumphing imperator and held sway over the Forum Boarium, in which lay the various meat markets, and which formed the large open space in front of the starting-post end of the Circus Maximus.
In Republican times it was not inhabited as a suburb, but was the place where triumphing armies bivouacked, the young were trained in military exercises, horses engaged in chariot racing were stabled and trained, the Centuriate Assembly met, and market gardening vied with public parklands.
The triumphing general and his lictors went into the temple and offered the god their laurels of victory, after which happened the triumphal feast.
After that, I could say nothing more before the stranger: and when he was gone, and she came back triumphing, and laughing, and singing about the room, more like a mad play-actress than a decent young woman, I kept quiet and bore with her provocation.
In Republican times it was not inhabited as a suburb, but was the place where triumphing armies bivouacked, the young were trained in military exercises, horses engaged in chariot racing were stabled and trained, the Centuriate Assembly met, and market gardening vied with public park-lands.
The really essential, significant thing is not his suffering, vicarious death, but his triumphing, typical ascension.