Elate vs Elude - What's the difference?
elate | elude |
To make joyful or proud.
To lift up; raise; elevate.
elated; exultant
* Alexander Pope
* Mrs. H. H. Jackson
(obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
* Fenton
* Sir W. Jones
To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 26.
To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.
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To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.
In transitive terms the difference between elate and elude
is that elate is to lift up; raise; elevate while elude is to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.As an adjective elate
is elated; exultant.elate
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Verb
(elat)Adjective
(head)- O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, / Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate .
- Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
- with upper lip elate
- And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate , / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "elate")Anagrams
* ----elude
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Verb
(elud)- Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.
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