triumphantly

English

Etymology

From triumphant +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

triumphantly (comparative more triumphantly, superlative most triumphantly)

1. In a triumphant manner.
   • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:

     Hath not the same fierce heirdom given
     Rome to the Caesar—this to me?
     The heritage of a kingly mind,
     And a proud spirit which hath striven
     Triumphantly with human kind.

   • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 53:

     “Another double,” said the old lady: triumphantly making a memorandum of the circumstance, by placing one sixpence and a battered halfpenny, under the candlestick.

Translations

in a triumphant manner

• Czech: vítězoslavně
• Esperanto: triumfe
• Finnish: voitonriemuisesti
• German: triumphierend (de)
• Swedish: triumferande (sv)

References

• "triumphantly" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.