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Exaltation
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- 1 The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. countable, uncountable
"The irregular and undisciplined wars which it was her business to describe were naturally far more prolific of extraordinary incidents, unexpected turns of fortune, and striking displays of individual talent, and vice and virtue, than the more solemn movements of national hostility, where everything is in a great measure provided and foreseen, and where the inflexible subordination of rank, and the severe exactions of a limited duty, not only take away the inducement, but the opportunity, for those exaltations of personal feeling and adventure which produce the most lively interest, and lead to the most animating results."
- 2 the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) wordnet
- 3 The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property. countable, uncountable
- 4 a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead) wordnet
- 5 That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence. countable, uncountable
"He often stood there in a muse until dusk fell, and then darkness, while once in a while the moon, ‘in her exaltation’ as the astrologers say, rose to remind him that such worldly musings meant nothing to the hostile universe without."
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- 6 the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence wordnet
- 7 Apotheosis; becoming a god in the highest degree of glory after death. Mormonism, countable, uncountable
"Those who obtain exaltation will gain all power and thus themselves be omnipotent […]"
- 8 a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion wordnet
- 9 The collective noun for larks. countable, uncommon, uncountable
""Oh, I, well, I too fell into error, for I frittered away my morning in stalking yonder exaltation of larks, thinking they were dunlin, and in doing so disturbed the only sord of mallards on the whole marsh.""
- 10 An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, observed as a symptom in various forms of insanity. archaic, countable, uncountable
Etymology
From Middle English exaltacioun, exaltatioun, from Old French exaltacion and Latin exaltātiō (“exaltation, elevation”), from exaltō (“raise, elevate, exalt”), from ex (“from, out of”) + altus (“high”).
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