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Elation. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1897, rev. 2025. Elation Also 4–5 elacion, 5 elacyoun, 5–6 elacyon, 6 elatioun. [In ME. ad. OF. elacion, ad. L. ēlātiōn-em, n. of action f. ppl. stem of efferre: see ELATE a.]

1   † 1.  (after Lat.) a. Lifting, elevation. b. Carrying out (e.g., of a dead body). Obs. rare.

2 1578.  Banister, Hist. Man, I. 25. The brest bones … yeeld to the elation and depression of the ribbes.

3 1697.  Potter, Antiq. Greece, IV. iv. (1715), 189. Its [the body’s] Elation from the House wherein it was prepar’d for Burial.

4   2.  Elevation of mind arising from success or self-approbation, pride of prosperity; pride, vainglory.

5 c. 1386.  Chaucer, Pers. T., 326. Elacion is whan he ne may neither suffre to haue maister ne felawe.

6 c. 1410.  N. Love, Bonavent. Mirr., xxv. 56 (Gibbs MS.). We haue no mater of elacyoun or veyn ioye of oure selfe.

7 c. 1522.  Skelton, Why not to Court, 479. He is in such elacyon Of his exaltation.

8 1678.  Owen, Mind of God, viii. 231. A noysome elation of mind.

9 1712.  Addison, Spect., No. 464, ¶ 3. Riches exposes a Man to … a foolish Elation of Heart.

10   † b.  concr. A proud or vain-glorious action.

11 c. 1630.  Jackson, Creed, IV. II. i. Wks. 1844, III. 202. Their next elation … was to elect him for their King.

12   3.  Elevation of spirits (in neutral or good sense); buoyancy, joyousness, pleasurable self-satisfaction. (The usual current sense.)

13 1750.  Johnson, Rambler, No. 184, ¶ 5. Their time is past between elation and despondency.

14 1804–8.  Foster, in Life & Corr. (1846), I. 278. These praises give me but very little Elation.

15 1841.  D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 619. In the elation of youth, he astounded the … fellows of his college.

16 1863.  Geo. Eliot, Romola, I. II. xxvii. (1880), 332. She saw her father … sink from elation into new disappointment.

17   b.  concr. An ‘outburst’ of high spirits. rare.

18 1870.  Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. II. (1873), 243. These are the natural jets and elations of a mind energized by the rapidity of its own motion.

19   † 4.  concr. Growth. Obs. rare.

20 c. 1420.  Pallad. on Husb., III. 859. Thai be apte unto putacion Of bowes drie or foule elacion [L. arida aut male nata].

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