exaltation
/ˌɛɡ.zɔlˈteɪ.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.47 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A feeling of happiness so intense as to be carried away by it; joyful pride bordering on ecstasy, often resulting from acclaim or triumph.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Those who obtain exaltation will gain all power and thus themselves be omnipotent […]"
- "Mormon commentators have taken various position about whether people who have died could move from a lower degree of glory—what non-Mormons might call salvation—to a higher one and eventually reach exaltation and become gods."
- "An 'exaltation' of skylarks, who will always sing you wet through, as the Watcher says, were warbling against the storm in an upper air and gave me a sudden illusion of sunshine."
- "Wood Larks are never seen in anything like such large flocks as Sky - Larks. Now and then, however, a few of the former mingle with an "exaltation of the latter.""
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”). By surface analysis, exalt + -ation.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: exaltacioun, exaltacion, exaltātiō
Usage
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Derived Forms
Phrases
Exaltation of the Cross
self-exaltation