Belates vs Elates - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between belates and elates

is that belates is while elates is (elate).

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(belate)

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(label) To retard; cause something to be late; delay; benight.

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(elate)

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(elat)

To make joyful or proud.

To lift up; raise; elevate.

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elated; exultant

* Alexander Pope

O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, / Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate .

* Mrs. H. H. Jackson

Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.

(obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.

* Fenton

with upper lip elate

* Sir W. Jones

And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate , / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

* (English Citations of "elate")

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