[f. TRIUMPH v. + -ER1.] One who triumphs.
1. One who celebrated a Roman triumph.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 305. Of whom [Cicero] Plinius … saieth … [Thou] diddest as worthyly deserue to haue the garlande of a triumpher for thy toung, as euer had any other before for the swearde.
1661. Morgan, Sph. Gentry, III. iv. 34. The Triumpher made his entrance in his Royall Chariot and was met by the Senators in their robes.
1737. L. Clarke, Hist. Bible (1740), I. IX. 609. On entering the capitol he did not, as other Triumphers used to do, put any of his captives to death.
2. A victor, conqueror.
1540. Coverdale, Fruitf. Less., v. (1593), Oo j. The glorious triumpher ascending vp to heauen with great victorie, did after the custome of great kings, and let fall his giftes downe vppon vs.
1603. H. Crosse, Vertues Commw. (1878), 17. An Antidote against pride, and a valiant tryumpher ouer flaming desires.
1760. C. Johnston, Chrysal (1822), III. 313. A vain ambition of triumphing over the triumpher.
1848. W. H. Kelly, trans. L. Blanc’s Hist. Ten Y., I. Introd. 17. In that uninterrupted succession of calamities … what are all these famous triumphers,… all these haughty distributers of empires?
