Both Uses
elated
in
Moby Dick
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- Indeed, many are the Nantucket ships in which you will see the skipper parading his quarter-deck with an elated grandeur not surpassed in any military navy; nay, extorting almost as much outward homage as if he wore the imperial purple, and not the shabbiest of pilot-cloth.†
Chpt 31-33 *elated = had a feeling of happiness and excitement
- Now, with elated step, they pace the planks in twos and threes, and humorously discourse of parlors, sofas, carpets, and fine cambrics; propose to mat the deck; think of having hanging to the top; object not to taking tea by moonlight on the piazza of the forecastle.†
Chpt 97-99
Definitions:
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(1)
(elated) full of happiness and excitement
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)