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Definition of Triumphing

1. a. Having or celebrating a triumph; victorious; triumphant.

Definition of Triumphing

1. Verb. (present participle of triumph) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Triumphing

1. triumph [v] - See also: triumph

Lexicographical Neighbors of Triumphing

Literary usage of Triumphing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson (1857)
"That the triumphing in the Epistle to the Colossians is not referred to the cross but to the resurrection, cannot be proved ; the coherence cannot enforce ..."

2. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"I have known Tom eloquent naif an hour together, and triumphing, as he thought, in the superiority of his argument, when he has been nonplussed on a sudden ..."

3. An Exposition of the Creed: With an Appendix, Containing the Principal Greek by John Pearson, William Stephen Dobson (1853)
"... the triumphing in the Epistle to the Colossians is not referred to the cross, but to the resurrection, cannot be proved : the coherence cannot enforce ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"208. by witnesses who laugh at the triumphing hero while they affirm the triumph. Mr. Burton ha; collected a few passages from contemporaries, ..."

5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... 1 could not help himself of this ; and therefore 2 Socrates calls Love a tyrant, and brings him triumphing in a chariot, whom Petrarch imitates in his ..."

6. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"eases, ì could not help himself of this ; and therefore * Socrates calls Love a tyrant, and brings him triumphing in ..."

7. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... and animated by an attachment to the rights of mankind, could not fail of triumphing over a body of troops, enlisted under the banners of despotism, ..."

8. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"Firmness of that Body triumphing over their Persecutors.—Restoration of Charles the Second.— Increased Emigration.—Statistics of New-England at this early ..."

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