Exalt
[ɪg'zɔːlt;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zɔlt]
Definition
(verb.) raise in rank, character, or status; 'exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser'.
Checker: Sumner--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.
(v. t.) To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.
(v. t.) To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.
(v. t.) To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.
(v. t.) To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument.
(v. t.) To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies.
Checker: Vivian
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Raise, elevate, erect, lift up.[2]. Ennoble, dignify, aggrandize.[3]. Praise (highly), extol, magnify, glorify, bless.
Typist: Suzy
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ELEVATE]
Checked by Kenneth
Definition
v.t. to elevate to a higher position: to elate or fill with the joy of success: to extol: (chem.) to refine or subtilise.—n. Exaltā′tion elevation in rank or dignity: high estate: elation: (astrol.) the position of a planet in the zodiac where it was supposed to wield the greatest influence.—p.adj. Exalt′ed elevated: lofty: dignified.—n. Exalt′edness.
Checker: Lorenzo
Examples
- Never had Lefferts so abounded in the sentiments that adorn Christian manhood and exalt the sanctity of the home. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Just as it belonged to his boastfulness to depreciate his own extraction, so it belonged to it to exalt Mrs. Sparsit's. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Two factors conspire in the later period of ancient life, however, to exalt literary and humanistic studies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- When would the days begin of that active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her husband's life and exalt her own? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She knew how trial and emotion would exalt and strengthen it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And I may feel well assured that your daughter Bella,' again turning to her husband, 'does not exalt her family by becoming a Mendicant's bride. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Those sentiments exalt me above all merely personal considerations. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She saw the Israelitish empire exalted, and she saw it annihilated. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Great and exalted deeds are what he lives to perform. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Perhaps his exalted appreciation of the merits of the old girl causes him usually to make the noun-substantive goodness of the feminine gender. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Dear Esther, let me only tell you that the fond idea of you which I took abroad was exalted to the heavens when I came home. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Raymond had been exalted by the determination he had made; but with the declining day his spirits declined. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was a pure and exalted activity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Separated from them; exalted in my heart; sole possessor of my affections; single object of my hopes, the best half of myself. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But do you not see, that, under the idea of exalting me, he is chalking out a new path for himself; a path of action from which he has long wandered? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I see no reason for exalting the unconscious failures of other revolutions into deliberate models for the next one. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- At first this sounds like standing the world on its head, denying reason and morality, and exalting practice over righteousness. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Do you notice how it exalts everything? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checker: Millicent