What's the difference between elative and supreme?

Elative


Definition:

  • (a.) Raised; lifted up; -- a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative, denoting a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Temporary mood states (depression, elation, neutral) were produced by means of Velten's auto-suggestion technique.
  • (2) When I left the room, along with elation, there was relief.
  • (3) Using an experimental procedure which minimised covert experimenter bias, subjects performed under both elation and depression mood inductions in one of four conditions: music present or absent by mood change instructions present or absent, using a crossover design.
  • (4) When prompted with the question, “That’s not a no though?”, Prince replied, “No.” Later that night, Prince turned up at the one-time roller disco in north London to play a set to a few dozen elated journalists and, towards the end of the show, a swarm of even more elated fans.
  • (5) Moreover ELAT-CSG is significantly more sensitive than ELAT-LAV (P = 0.03).
  • (6) 2 ml of fetal RBC in a 1,600-ml red cell mass can be quantified using the modified ELAT.
  • (7) I feel pleased to have crossed out 10 things today, then realise I’ve added 15 items to my list so my elation is shortlived!
  • (8) Yesterday afternoon, Straw described the mood among Ed Miliband's team – who had by now got used to being front- runners – as "elated" – and those among David's as "nervous".
  • (9) Following the initial immersion, subjects participated in the Velten mood induction procedure by reading either depressive, neutral or elative statements.
  • (10) Elated and depressed subjects performed best under positive and negative feedback, respectively.
  • (11) Nicotine fuses with nicotinic receptors, which trigger the release of several neurotransmitters – including serotonin and dopamine – which are both associated with positive side-effects, including elation and excitability.
  • (12) The effect of negative, positive, or neutral feedback on a rotary pursuit task as a function of the subject's depressed or elated mood was ascertained.
  • (13) I wrote about the wide-eyed optimism that rookie comedians come north with; the joy of spending time necking lager in the same drinking holes as your heroes; the elation of hearing the first laugh of the summer; the sadness of leaving your venue for the last time; the friends you make; the haunts you start to call your own; the feeling of finding your place in this mystical world; and the certainty that this is where you must be in August – that you must not go on a nice holiday or find paid work or attend a wedding or do up your chaotic flat instead.
  • (14) The 48-hour postinjection titer was compared with the size of bleed as measured by Du testing and the enzyme-linked antiglobulin test (ELAT).
  • (15) "You know I sort of feel elated, exhausted and thrilled.
  • (16) Although 51Cr is the accepted method for red cell survival, the ELAT method can be used to estimate transfused red cell survival.
  • (17) Self-rated anxiety was not found to be associated with the number of people present, whereas self-rated elation was positively correlated with the presence of others.
  • (18) For example, alcohol increased elation and vigor scores in the consistent choosers of alcohol, whereas it decreased scores on these measures in the consistent placebo choosers.
  • (19) Of the various psychiatric symptoms elation was significantly correlated with the presence of widespread MRI abnormalities, while flattening of affect, delusions and thought disorder correlated with the degree of pathology in the temporo-parietal region.
  • (20) Prior to treatment, patients rated hyperactive-elated, angry, and agitated had more motor activity, and patients rated anergic and retarded had less motor activity.

Supreme


Definition:

  • (a.) Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power.
  • (a.) Highest; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist possible (sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory; supreme magnanimity; supreme folly.
  • (a.) Situated at the highest part or point.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
  • (2) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (3) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
  • (4) However, the law minister indicated he would allow the supreme court to approve a draft of the letter.
  • (5) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
  • (6) America's same-sex couples, and the politicians who have barred gay marriage in 30 states, are looking to the supreme court to hand down a definitive judgment on where the constitution stands on an issue its framers are unlikely to have imagined would ever be considered.
  • (7) Part II reviews Supreme Court cases and state law regarding abortion counseling, critizing both the Court's narrow view of counseling and the states' failure to use the legislative process to create laws which benefit maternal health.
  • (8) Tension heightened last week after Davis continued to refuse licenses to couples; on Friday, she filed a request to the supreme court to stay the lower court’s decision.
  • (9) Egypt has been without a sitting lower house of parliament since summer 2012, when it was dissolved by the country's supreme court .
  • (10) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
  • (11) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
  • (12) The difficulty has been increased with the recent Supreme Court decision which it ruled the Alien Tort Claims Act does not apply outside of the country and dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell.
  • (13) The current president of the supreme court, Lord Phillips, who steps down at the end of September, welcomed his successor, praising his "wealth of judicial experience" and "ability to lead a collegiate court".
  • (14) The advocates had attempted to get a decision by filing lawsuits directly with the supreme court rather than through an appeal of a lower court decision.
  • (15) Though there will be an open competition, the job is expected to go to Lord Dyson, who will step down from the supreme court to become master of the rolls.
  • (16) Her lawyer, Winston Cochran, said he would mount last-minute appeals and potentially take the case to the supreme court.
  • (17) Last September, propelled by the success of the Irish referendum and the US supreme court decision, the idea that Australian parliamentarians should, as a matter of conscience, reconsider marriage equality was gathering powerful force.
  • (18) They also said there was no clear common law right to vote in the UK.The supreme court will publish a full ruling later.
  • (19) Critics of Rouhani’s policy of rapprochement with the international community inside Iran can turn to the supreme leader and say there wasn’t really much need for that softer tone because now we have more bargaining chips in our hands.
  • (20) Nonetheless, the NSA persuaded Erwin Griswold, the former dean of Harvard law school, the then solicitor general of the United States, to knowingly lie to the United States supreme court that it was still a secret.

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