Exaltation Definition

ĕgzôl-tāshən
noun
An exalting or being exalted.
Webster's New World
A feeling of great joy, pride, power, etc.; elation; rapture.
Webster's New World
A flight of larks.
American Heritage
Exaltation is defined as a feeling of ecstasy or extreme happiness, or the act of praising someone highly.
When you have just had a new baby and are incredibly happy, the feeling you feel is an example of exaltation.
When an author receives rave reviews and is hailed as the greatest of our time, this is an example of exaltation.
YourDictionary
The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
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Other Word Forms of Exaltation

Noun

Singular:
exaltation
Plural:
exaltations

Origin of Exaltation

  • From French exaltation, from Latin exaltātiō (“exaltation, elevation”), from exaltō (“raise, elevate, exalt”), from ex (“from, out of”) + altus (“high”).

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Exaltation Sentence Examples

  • Lamennais, then in the height of his Catholic exaltation, persuaded Comte's mother to insist on her son being married with the religious ceremony, and as the younger Madame Comte apparently did not resist, the rite was duly performed, in spite of the fact that Comte was at the time raving mad.

  • He dedicated nine years to the study of Arabic, and in 1275 showed such signs of mental exaltation that, at the request of his wife and family, an official was appointed to administer his estate.

  • It thus became in a high degree symbolical of the exaltation of the sacerdotal power.

  • In his exaltation of the spiritual side of religion over its forms, his enthusiastic celebration of the love of Christ, and his assertion of the individualist principle, he represented the best side of the influences that led to the Lollard movement.

  • Intense application during early youth had weakened a constitution never robust, and led to accesses of feverish exaltation culminating, in the spring of 1761, in an attack of bilious hypochondria, which permanently lowered the tone of his nervous system.

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Words Starting With

EEXEXA

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With E and Ending With N

Starts With E & Ends With NStarts With EX & Ends With NStarts With E & Ends With ON

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