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Definition
full of happiness and excitement
- He walked over the snow, feeling giddy and elated.Book Two - Flight (9% in)
elated = had a feeling of happiness and excitement
- "Lick it," Bigger said, his body tingling with elation.Book One - Fear (39% in)
- His fingers felt the soft curves of her body and he was still, looking at her, enveloped in a sense of physical elation.Book One - Fear (86% in)
- Elation filled him.Book Two - Flight (6% in)
- Maybe the confused promptings, the excitement, the tingling, the elation"maybe they were false lights that led nowhere.Book Three - Fate (2% in)
- It was more important to him to find out what this new tingling, this new elation, this new excitement meant.Book Three - Fate (55% in)
- These bright colors may fill our hearts with elation, but to many they are daily taunts.Book Three - Fate (76% in)
- He was impelled toward murder as much through the thirst for excitement, exultation, and elation as he was through fear!Book Three - Fate (80% in)
- There existed between them fitful splurges of physical elation" that's all.Book Three - Fate (81% in)
There are no more uses of "elated" in Native Son.
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