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elation|ɪˈleɪʃən|
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. (after Lat.)
a. Lifting, elevation.
b. Carrying out (e.g. of a dead body). Obs. rare.
1578Banister Hist. Man i. 25 The brest bones..yeeld to the elation and depression of the ribbes. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece iv. iv. (1715) 189 Its [the body's] Elation from the House wherein it was prepar'd for Burial.
2. Elevation of mind arising from success or self-approbation, pride of prosperity; pride, vainglory.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋326 Elacion is whan he ne may neither suffre to haue maister ne felawe. c1410N. Love Bonavent. Mirr. xxv. 56 (Gibbs MS.), We haue no mater of elacyoun or veyn ioye of oure selfe. c1522Skelton Why not to Court 479 He is in such elacyon Of his exaltation. 1678Owen Mind of God viii. 231 A noysome elation of mind. 1712Addison Spect. No. 464 ⁋3 Riches exposes a Man to..a foolish Elation of Heart.
†b. concr. A proud or vain-glorious action.
c1630Jackson Creed iv. ii. i. Wks. 1844 III. 202 Their next elation..was to elect him for their King.
3. Elevation of spirits (in neutral or good sense); buoyancy, joyousness, pleasurable self-satisfaction. (The usual current sense.)
1750Johnson Rambler No. 184 ⁋5 Their time is past between elation and despondency. 1804–8Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) I. 278 These praises give me but very little Elation. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 619 In the elation of youth, he astounded the..fellows of his college. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola I. ii. xxvii. (1880) 332 She saw her father..sink from elation into new disappointment.
b. concr. An ‘outburst’ of high spirits. rare.
1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. (1873) 243 These are the natural jets and elations of a mind energized by the rapidity of its own motion.
†4. concr. Growth. Obs. rare.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. iii. 859 Thai be apte unto putacion Of bowes drie or foule elacion [L. arida aut male nata]. |