Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRI'UMPH, v.i.

1. To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice for victory. How long shall the wicked triumph? Ps. xciv.
2. To obtain victory. There fix thy faith, and triumph o'er the world. Rowe. Attir'd with stars, we shall forever sit / Triumphing over death. Milton.
3. To insult upon an advantage gained. Let not my enemies triumph over me. Ps. xxv. Sorrow on all the pack of you / That triumph thus upon my misery. Shak.
4. To be prosperous; to flourish. Where commerce triumph'd on the favoring gales. Trumbull. To triumph over, to succeed in overcoming; to surmount; as, to triumph over all obstacles.