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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Exaltation" Quotes from Famous Books

... remorse and abasement strove the defiant impulse to pluck and eat—forgetful of this world and the next the royal fruit so fairly held to his lips! For herein fails the divinity of nature,—she can minister as well to man's depravity as to his exaltation; which could not happen were she one with God. Nay, man had need be strong with Divine inspiration, before communing ...

— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne

... assumed the role of onlooker. The air was full of laughter and greetings and kisses; light-hearted, offhand, gratulatory kisses which appeared to be the natural currency of felicitation. Betty Raleigh, lovely, flushed, and athrill with nervous exaltation, flung him a smile as she passed, one hand hooked in the arm of ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... wooded hills after he had found the water of life and was bearing it towards the plain. He saw the towers quite clearly and also thought he heard the call upon that downward road at whose end he was to meet with Bramimonde. But he saw it thence only, in the exaltation of the summits as he looked over the falling forest to the plain and the Sierra miles beyond. He saw it thence only. Never after upon either bank of Ebro could he come upon it, nor could any man ...

— On Nothing & Kindred Subjects • Hilaire Belloc

... body and retain herself was her gift, above all other women, thereby remaining always new, always unexpected, and always desirable. In the few visits to Paris which had been allowed to him by her, and by Madame Savelli, she had repaid him for the long abstinences by an extraordinary exaltation and rapture of body and of intellect, but he had always experienced a strange alienation, even when he held her in his arms—perhaps then more than ever did he feel that she never was, and never ...

— Sister Teresa • George Moore

... fact of his being more than an hour late for his day's work. His face, however, betrayed a certain spiritual emotion not suggestive of anticipated trouble with employer or foreman. As a matter of fact, the familiar everyday duty had ceased to exist for him, and if his new exaltation wavered a little as he neared the warehouse, fifteen minutes later, it was only because he would have to explain things to the uncle who employed him, and to other people; and he was ever ...

— Wee Macgreegor Enlists • J. J. Bell

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