Word Finder - triumphant

definition

Celebrating victory.

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Athena, war's triumphant maid...

Toni gave Jessi a triumphant look.

His face was so unusually triumphant that Pierre rose in alarm on seeing it.

Katie leaned back, a triumphant look on her face as if she had made a point.

Triumphant yet still angry, she wriggled slowly out of her shirt, dropping it beside her.

This strategy was at first triumphant.

To the bishop's formula, "I separate thee from the church militant and the church triumphant," Savonarola replied in firm tones, "Not from the church triumphant; that is beyond thy power."

Murad, who had welcomed the Persian War as a good opportunity for ridding himself of the presence of the janissaries, whom he dreaded, had soon cause to fear their triumphant return.

He seems to have arrested their triumphant career (c. 1372),.

Mr. Cooms was triumphant.

Back on topic, " Who is she that stands triumphant?

In prosecution of this design the king appeared in Italy in the autumn of 1494, pursued his triumphant march through Lombardy and Tuscany, and, on the 31st of December, entered Rome.

Under his direction the popular rising against the invader ultimately proved triumphant.

A combat which took place, at Mount Jackson, during the pursuit, again ended successfully, and the triumphant Federals retired down the Valley, ruthlessly destroying everything which might be of the slightest value to the enemy.

His journey was long and triumphant, and his return precipitate; indeed it very nearly ended in a disaster at Fornovo, owing to the first of those Italian holy leagues which at the least sign of friction were ready to turn against France.

Progress is halting and painful, but also triumphant and often blackly humorous.

Her dress is badly crumpled but her smile triumphant, beams between her blushing cheeks.

Outstanding tracks include the latest single ' Only This Moment ', the incredibly infectious ' Triumphant ' and ' Follow My Ruin ' .

I felt quite triumphant over writing a story set in my own country.

He arrived from Egypt at the psychological moment,and his journey from Frejus to Paris resembled a triumphant procession.

In the West, however, in the middle ages, the procession with candles and banners outside the church was taken as symbolical of Christ's triumphant entry into heaven.

But besides these reasons of state there was a growing hostility between the triumphant National parties and the Ultramontanes, who taught that the pope was greater than the emperor and the Church than the nation.

The result for Austria was a triumphant vindication of Metternich's diplomacy.

But by the time that Charles had succeeded in " converting " the Saxons, the Viking raids were already at their height, and though generally triumphant, necessity occasionally taught the Northmen the value of concessions.

However, when he returned to England in June 1444, after negotiating the marriage and a two years' truce, he received a triumphant reception.

Eck left Leipzig triumphant, and Luther returned to Wittenberg much depressed.

From the days of Protagoras, when this hostility was triumphant and contemptuous, to the days of Isocrates, when it was jealous and bitter, the sophists were declared and consistent sceptics.

The day after Barkiyaroq's triumphant entry into Bagdad, Muharram 487 (February 1094), he died suddenly, apparently by poison.

Their army drove the lately triumphant party out of Winchester, and captured its military chief, Robert, earl of Gloucester.

Dermot was triumphant, and sent for more auxiliaries, Ispiring to evict Roderic OConnor of Connaught from the precarious throne of High King of Ireland.

Henry appeared completely triumphant; but the fourteen years which he had yet to live were for the most part to be times of trouble and frustrated hopes.

Edward pursued his triumphant march as far as Aberdeen and Elgin, without meeting further resistance.

But the delusion that Scotland had been finally subdued was to last only for a year, although in 1305 Edward seemed to have accomplished his task, and stood triumphant, with the northern realm at his feet, his domestic foes humbled, and France and the papacy defeated.

But for the moment the king seemed triumphant; he called a parliament which revoked the, ordinances of 13f I, and replaced the Despensers in power.

His first success was marvellous; he defeated the kings troops, made a triumphant entry into London and held the city for two days.

There have been many more effective orators, for lack of imaginative suppleness prevented him from penetrating to the inner mind of his hearers; defects in delivery weakened the intrinsic persuasiveness of his reasoning; and he had not that commanding authority of character and personality which has so often been the secret of triumphant eloquence.

In 1020 (411 A.H.) the caliph was assassinated by contrivance of his sister Sitt ul-Mulk; but it was given out by Hamza that he had only withdrawn for a season, and his followers were encouraged to look forward with confidence to his triumphant return.

Christianity is essentially "Stoicism triumphant in a Jewish garb."

It was in Herbert Spencer, the triumphant " buccinator novi temporis," that the advocates of evolutionary ethics found.

For ten months Boleslaus remained at Kiev, whence he addressed triumphant letters to the emperors of the East and West.

Del primato morale e civile degli Italiani and the Prolegomeni to the same, and soon afterwards his triumphant exposure of the Jesuits, Il Gesuita moderno, no doubt hastened - the transfer of rule from clerical to civil hands.

The favorite subject of themysteries and of other artistic manifestations was no longer the triumphant Christ of the middle ages, nor the smiling and teaching Christ of the I3th century, but the Man of sorrows and of death, the naked bleeding Jesus, lying on the knees of his mother or crowned with thorns.

But the triumphant Mountain was not as united as it boasted.

England remaining invulnerable in her insular position despite Hoches attempt to land in Ireland m 1796, the Directory resumed the traditional policy against Austria of conquering the natural frontiers, Carnot furnishing the plans; hence the war in southern Germany, in which Jourdan and Moreau were repulsed by an inferior force under the archduke Charles, and Bonapartes triumphant Italian campaign.

Galileo's views, although erroneous, since he held comets to be mere atmospheric emanations reflecting sunlight after the evanescent fashion of a halo or a rainbow, were expressed with such triumphant vigour, and embellished with such telling sarcasms, that his opponent did not venture upon a reply.

Between the two I'm sure of my triumphant success in completing this stage of my quest to hunt down this distractor in my road of adventure.

Part of him felt triumphant to know he'd piss off Kris as well as Sasha.

Clouds from the retreating storm looked like a triumphant army, hauling away its ordinance for another engagement—with only white-gray stragglers tagging behind.

Hence the recent triumphant announcement that it had reduced by half the number of asylum claims.

Following last season's unfortunate relegation to Division 2, the Academicals are planning a triumphant comeback.

The tarpaulin, bulged up in the center, seemed to be suppressing triumphant exultation.