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TRIUMPHANTLY

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a triumphant manner

Example:

she shouted triumphantly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

triumphant (joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success)

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 Context examples: 

"Who's croaking now?" Bill demanded triumphantly.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Well, continued Mrs Smith, triumphantly, grant my friend the credit due to the establishment of the first point asserted.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"But what do you make of this?" cried Professor Summerlee, triumphantly, pointing to what looked like the huge print of a five-fingered human hand appearing among the three-toed marks.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, but Miss Dashwood, speaking triumphantly, people may say what they chuse about Mr. Ferrars's declaring he would not have Lucy, for it is no such thing I can tell you; and it is quite a shame for such ill-natured reports to be spread abroad.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Holmes looked triumphantly at Bannister.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I thought sometimes I saw beyond its wild waters a shore, sweet as the hills of Beulah; and now and then a freshening gale, wakened by hope, bore my spirit triumphantly towards the bourne: but I could not reach it, even in fancy—a counteracting breeze blew off land, and continually drove me back.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Yet you do not know the end!" I cried triumphantly.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Martin felt the heat in his face of the involuntary blood, and Brissenden laughed triumphantly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Mr. Dick,” said my aunt triumphantly, “give me your hand, for your common sense is invaluable.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)