Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TRI'UMPH
TRI'UMPH, v.i.
- To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice for victory. How long shall the wicked triumph? Ps. xciv.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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