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Meanings of elating in English

Making lively and joyful.

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        Usage of elating in English
        1
        Far from being disappointed, I found it profound, poetic and elating.
        The Guardian
        2
        Maybe his experience was not as elating as I had anticipated.
        Crazy for the storm: a memoir of survival
        3
        However that might be, a sudden, elating thought caused him an intense joy.
        Roads of Destiny
        4
        It was elating and terrifying, all at once.
        All together dead
        5
        It never came, just an elating liberation.
        Rakes and radishes
        6
        To be sure 'tis a flattering and an elating prospect which may well overpower the pride of a woman.
        The Robbers
        7
        That writer tells us: It's an elating ramble of a movie, ardent and full of feeling, passionate but also exquisitely controlled.
        The Irish Times
        8
        Scared Brinnaria was, but even through her worst qualms of panic she was uplifted by an elating sense of her own importance.
        The Unwilling Vestal
        Elating through the time