0 used to refer to something that celebrates a great victory (= winning a war or competition)or success:
These are followed by military monuments in the city, starting with triumphal arches.
His answer was that the history of democracy is not the triumphal story of freedom's overthrow of fetters imposed by church and state.
Others believed western history was a process, just not a triumphal one.
This was of course a triumphal journey which never actually took place.
Authors progressed from one success to another, as in a triumphal march.
Such triumphal cars became a regular feature of processions and tournaments.
But someone at least had the idea that these concepts should be examined and, inexorably, the rug under the grammarians' triumphal return started to move.
In the past this anniversary has been celebrated in a one-sided and triumphal manner.
