triumphalismn.

1964 R. McA. Brown Observer in Rome 27 I am greatly impressed by the recognition of human failings in this prayer and by its exclusion of the ‘triumphalism’ that has often seemed to characterize the church.

1968 N.Y. Times 12 Jan. 25 Wayne H. Cowan, managing editor of the liberal Protestant journal, Christianity and Crisis, said the pastoral ‘mutes the triumphalism of the past, but still places great emphasis on the mystery and infallibility of the church’.

1972 Catholic Herald 9 June 4 Nostalgia for the pre-Conciliar years of exclusivity and triumphalism.

1975 New Yorker 10 Mar. 83/1 This contrast is understandable, given what critics of the regime have labelled ‘triumphalism’—something that goes way beyond mere ostentation on a colossal scale.

1977 P. Johnson Enemies of Society iv. 47 The loss of interest and confidence in the human mind and spirit is, to some extent, concealed by the gigantic triumphalism of late imperial architecture.

1981 G. Priestland Priestland's Progress i. 17 John V. Taylor, Bishop of Winchester,..is right when he seeks to turn us from shallow triumphalism or the reshuffling of old dogmas.

1983 Times 31 May 13/2 There would probably be an initial outbreak of Tory triumphalism, which would be distasteful and unnecessary.

1967 H. Chadwick Early Church 285 Towards such triumphalist assumptions a twentieth-century Christian is likely to be cool and reserved.

1967 Times 22 Apr. 12/5 The anxieties of the lingering triumphalists are increased.

1970 Daily Tel. 2 Dec. 12/7 Elgar's unashamedly triumphalist setting of the National Anthem sounded a defiantly anachronistic note.

1973 Listener 19 Apr. 512/1 The busy, businesslike, triumphalist, materially successful France of today.

1980 Focus Summer 24/1 The triumphalist tends to interpret what God has done as his own achievement.

1982 Sunday Tel. 30 May 9/2 Churches have been stripped of baroque or Italianate furnishings, altars have been heaved forward, ‘triumphalist’ pictures and symbols stashed away.

1967 R. McA. Brown Ecumenical Revol. vi. 115 It must be acknowledged that later Protestants themselves became as triumphalistic about their own confessions and traditions and denominations as they ever accused the Roman Catholic Church of being.

1983 Observer 28 Nov. 8/3 The journalists..fed readers and viewers a diet of triumphalistic pap.