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Elate

//ɪˈleɪt//

Definitions

verbelates · elating · elated

1
To make joyful or proud.
That happy minute would elate me, / End all my sorrow, grief, and cares; / Then do not frown, altho' you hate me, / But smile and dissipate my fears: […]
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2
To lift up; raise; elevate.

adj

1
Elated; exultant.
Oh thoughtless Mortals! ever blind to Fate, Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate.
2
Lifted up; raised; elevated.
c. 1707, Elijah Fenton, a letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield with upper lip elate

Word Origin

From Middle English elat, elate, from Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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