Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Disproportionate or unreasonable celebration of the perceived successes and virtues of a given group, religion, or ideology relative to those of others.
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- noun The attitude or belief that a particular
doctrine ,culture , or social system, particularly a religious or political one, is superior and that it will or shouldtriumph over all others.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some have called it an exercise in triumphalism, intended to plant Islam's flag at the scene of the attacks and deliberately provoke Americans.
Park51 Photos: Islamic Center Design Looks Modern, Secular In Artist Renderings The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Some have called it an exercise in triumphalism, intended to plant Islam's flag at the scene of the attacks and deliberately provoke Americans.
Park51 Photos: Islamic Center Design Looks Modern, Secular In Artist Renderings The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Some have called it an exercise in triumphalism, intended to plant Islam's flag at the scene of the attacks and deliberately provoke Americans.
Park51 Photos: Islamic Center Design Looks Modern, Secular In Artist Renderings AP 2010
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Some have called it an exercise in triumphalism, intended to plant Islam's flag at the scene of the attacks and deliberately provoke Americans.
Park51 Photos: Islamic Center Design Looks Modern, Secular In Artist Renderings AP 2010
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Some have called it an exercise in triumphalism, intended to plant Islam's flag at the scene of the attacks and deliberately provoke Americans.
Park51 Photos: Islamic Center Design Looks Modern, Secular In Artist Renderings AP 2010
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Some have called it an exercise in triumphalism, intended to plant Islam's flag at the scene of the attacks and deliberately provoke Americans.
Park51 Photos: Islamic Center Design Looks Modern, Secular In Artist Renderings AP 2010
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But to Quebec souverainistes today, this is an exercise in triumphalism, pure and simple, and they plan to protest the events should they go on.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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The reactions to Radley Balko’s recent Fox column on blogs are a pretty good illustration of something I mentioned worrying about a couple weeks back — this necrotic, self-congratulatory mind-set wherein anything short of unchecked blog triumphalism is shoehorned into this cartoonish Old Media Dinos vs. Spry Furry Blogger Mammals narrative.
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Lest anybody think that Mr. Ferguson's analysis is just another exercise in Anglo-Saxon triumphalism, it should be noted that his discussion includes Continental Europe.
The Birth of the Modern World Brendan Simms 2011
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His triumphalism is the triumphalism of the "all-too-human" Last Man.
Blake, Nietzsche, and Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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