elate
verb (used with object)
to make very happy or proud.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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This can readily be believed by all those who keep birds, for the breaking of a single seed will elate them.
From The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times by John Thomas Smith