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Exalt

verb

(past & past part. exalted; pres. part. exalting)

Praise, glorify, or honor. Synonyms: extol, glorify, laud, proclaim. "Glorify one's spouse's cooking"

Fill with sublime emotion. Synonyms: beatify, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink. "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"

Heighten or intensify. Synonyms: animate, enliven, inspire, invigorate.

Raise in rank, character, or status.

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"Exalt" Quotes from Famous Books

... him in the eye; the sudden abandonment to her shame seemed to lift and to exalt her; afterward, shuddering over that day, she still remembered a certain perverse pleasure in this moment. And she spoke loud, so loud that ...

— The Readjustment • Will Irwin

... exalt the Father That He sent His Son to earth. Many with indifference gather At His ...

— Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark • Jens Christian Aaberg

... them a religious horror of letters and knowledge. Thus was human nature chained fast for ages, in a cruel, shameful, and deplorable servitude, to him and his subordinate tyrants; who, it was foretold, would exalt himself above all that was called ...

— A Collection of State-Papers, Relative to the First Acknowledgment of the Sovereignty of the United States of America • John Adams

... give me some more of it, is the cry of every one in the street of Pleasure. And as for tranquillity, where is it? and who obtains it? If you be a great man, flattery and envy are killing you; if you be poor, every one is trampling upon and despising you; after having become an inventor, if you exalt your head and seek for praise, you will be called a boaster and a coxcomb; if you lead a godly life and resort to the church and the altar, you will be called a hypocrite; if you do not, then you are an infidel or a heretic; ...

— The Sleeping Bard - or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell • Ellis Wynne

... instinct the two friars both started toward the head of the table, perhaps from habit, and then, as might have been expected, the same thing happened that occurs with the competitors for a university position, who openly exalt the qualifications and superiority of their opponents, later giving to understand that just the contrary was meant, and who murmur and grumble when they do not receive ...

— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

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