Both Uses of
elated
in
The Lords of Discipline
- They had laughed at my jokes at the beginning of the speech, but their laughter was co Joyless and forced that it depressed rather than elated me.†
Chpt 1.9 *elated = had a feeling of happiness and excitement
- I want also to speak for the triumphant boys who took everything the system could throw at them, endured every torment and excess, and survived the ordeal of the freshman year with a feeling of transformation and achievement that they had never felt before and would never know again with such clarity and elation.†
Chpt 2.16elation = intense feeling of happiness and excitement
Definition:
full of happiness and excitement