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  • noun Plural form of elation.

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Examples

  • To run down meat was to experience thrills and elations.

    The Law of Meat 2010

  • False divinity, when addicted to, evokes redundant elations and depressions, fears and guilt and perceptions of gains and losses.

    Dr. John Demartini: Oh My God: Divinity (God) 2009

  • In a novel set in the near future, Dr. Tom More is a “not very successful psychiatrist” and bad Catholic who is prey to “depressions and elations and morning terrors.”

    Five Books of doctors 2009

  • I went through every lap of the marathon — from the frustrations, to the elations, to the World Series, to 9/11, to gradually moving on.

    Piazza shows flexibility as A's DH 2007

  • In a novel set in the near future, Dr. Tom More is a “not very successful psychiatrist” and bad Catholic who is prey to “depressions and elations and morning terrors.”

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • And the elations you feel in a relationship -- satisfied, triumphant, and ecstatic -- you can feel while being single.

    Samara O'Shea: The Grass is Rarely (Almost Never) Greener 2008

  • She was told that this was the statement made and the policy of the county board of elations:

    Ohio: Suit Filed for Election Observers, "Dial Up" Provisional Ballots, and a Comment 2008

  • It is only in dialectically examining the elations between the parts and the whole I all their aspects, and in regulating them, that we can know the disease and cure it.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Abhay N 2006

  • It is only in dialectically examining the elations between the parts and the whole I all their aspects, and in regulating them, that we can know the disease and cure it.

    Achievements of Mao Tse Tung Abhay N 2006

  • The term preemptive gets bantered around a lot on thie subject of this war but preventive is more accurate, although its sounds a lot less P(ublic)R(elations)-correct.

    Can This Argument Be Won? 2004

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