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Enate vs Elate - What's the difference?

enate | elate |

As adjectives the difference between enate and elate

is that enate is related to someone by female connections while elate is elated; exultant.

As a noun enate

is a relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.

As a verb elate is

to make joyful or proud.

enate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
  • A great grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.
  • * 2000 , Alexander H. Bolyanatz, Mortuary Feasting on New Ireland: The Activation of Matriliny Among the Sursurunga , page 86,
  • Similarly, since the wearing of a sawat'' is importantly informed by matrilineal group membership — an enate of the deceased cannot wear a ''sawat — it would be an error to assume that matrilineal group membership is necessarily salient in explaining the behavior of a social actor.
  • Any maternal female relative.
  • Antonyms

    * agnate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Related to someone by female connections.
  • Related on the maternal side of the family.
  • (linguistics) Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
  • Growing out.
  • Coordinate terms

    * agnate (also linguistics )

    Synonyms

    * enatic

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    elate

    English

    Verb

    (elat)
  • To make joyful or proud.
  • To lift up; raise; elevate.
  • Adjective

    (head)
  • 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.

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