triumphantly

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Etymology

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From triumphant +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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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.

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