elevated
/ˈɛl.əˌveɪ.dɪd/ noun C2- An elevated railway. · the Washington Street Elevated
Plural elevateds
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He was a simple-looking lawyer’s clerk, elevated to the extraordinary dignity of a provincial scrivener.
“I have enemies?” replied Dantès; “my position is not sufficiently elevated for that.
You are about to become captain at nineteen—an elevated post; you are about to marry a pretty girl, who loves you; and these two pieces of good fortune may have excited the envy of someone.”
I have more than once observed to Lady Catherine, that her charming daughter seemed born to be a duchess; and that the most elevated rank, instead of giving her consequence, would be adorned by her.
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