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noun

Exaltation n.

The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. "Wondering at my flight, and change To this high exaltation."

(Alchem.) The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.

(Astrol.) That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence.

(Med.) An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, a symptom observed in various forms of insanity.

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Etymology of 'Exaltation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Exaltation" Quotes from Famous Books

... emotion had left him; a not unfamiliar feeling of exaltation had taken its place. It is often so with the extreme Puritan type; control relaxed for however brief a moment sends their slow blood whirling, and leaves them light-headed as those who breathe thin air. From boyhood Simpson had been practised in control, until repression ...

— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various

... away from court for a day or two, and when I returned and called upon Brandon at the Tower, I found him whistling and singing, apparently as happy as a lark. "You heartless dog," thought I, at first; but I soon found that he felt more than happiness—exaltation. ...

— When Knighthood Was in Flower • Charles Major

... hands, in his feet, and in his side. Yea, such an excellency is there in that glass, that it will show him to one where they have a mind to see him, whether living or dead, whether in earth or in heaven, whether in a state of humiliation or in his exaltation, whether coming to suffer or coming to reign. James I: 23-25; I ...

— The Riches of Bunyan • Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

... having a homogeneous texture of ecstasy over them that surpasses any aesthetic surface of harmonic colour, though that harmony also is understood by the deeper welling of imagery from the core of creative exaltation. And I think that this occurs in Lysistrata. The intellectual and spiritual tendrils of the poem are more truly interwoven, the operation of their centres more nearly unified; and so the work goes deeper into life. It is his greatest play because of this, because ...

— Lysistrata • Aristophanes

... of Heaven's sake," whether, under modern conditions, that means abstention in marriage from procreation, or voluntary sterilization by operative methods.[43] For, as Giddings has put it, the goal of the race lies, not in the ruthless exaltation of a super-man, but in the evolution of a super-mankind. Such a goal can only be reached by ...

— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

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