(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(2) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
(3) To stand virtuously in the grandstand looking down upon a world whose best efforts in inevitably imperfect times can never match your own exalted standards is a definition of irrelevance, not virtue.
(4) Children are taught to exalt Assad and his father, while schoolbooks describe Syria as one of the most powerful nations on the planet.
(5) So where is the left-lurching that the Tories allege, with Charles Falconer, Tristram Hunt and Douglas Alexander all exalted?
(6) It has exalted the lowly and brought down the mighty from their seats.
(7) Whether witnessed close-up, as in Mitchell's case, or from afar, in the exaltation of Sir Ranulph as he escorts his wig to the Antarctic, a narrow model of male prowess is actively damaging huge numbers of non-dominant, powerless or jobless men, who struggle, the charity explains, when they are unable to meet expectations.
(8) Good cause Twenty years after our vague encounter in the prison classroom Clarke and I meet again – no bodyguards this time, just the two of us in the more exalted environs of the Cabinet Office.
(9) Immunization of rabbits with the antigens without the adjuvant not only failed to inhibit but, contrariwise, enhanced the multiplication of intradermally inoculated vaccinia virus, inducing heavy skin lesions and exalted virus multiplication.
(10) Alteration of the signal parameters inducing the sensation of the sound image movement, was found to lead to exaltation of amplitudes of the N1 and P2 components.
(11) Phenomenon of learning exaltation in ontogeny was supposed to be connected with the high level of activity of perception and association cerebral mechanisms being the result of immaturity of inhibitory structures.
(12) China’s public will be encouraged to swoon over the silver-gilt candelabra adorning the royal banquet table, the flower arrangements inspected personally by the Queen, the priceless gold vessels displayed as a sign of respect for the guest of honour’s exalted rank.
(13) Yet the meaning is unclear, a fillip of animal optimism after a book-length, clear-eyed exaltation of Nature as a chemical and molecular and mathematical construct - Nature seized in the tightening grip of science, and stripped of the pathetic fallacy even in the sophisticated form in which Emerson's Neoplatonism couched it.
(14) The Labour leader, Harold Wilson, insisted that it revealed 'the sickness of an unrepresentative sector of our society' and called for 'the replacement of materialism and the worship of the golden calf by values which exalt the spirit of service and the spirit of national dedication'.
(15) Among such exalted company, it was Ranieri’s capacity to bring people together that marked him apart.
(16) Considering that the outspoken Mourinho had informed his players at the interval that they would win 2-0, such a goal would have left the rest of us powerless to dispute this remarkable manager's exalted opinion of himself.
(17) The first type is characterized by the intensive secondary facilitation which is transformed into exaltation, late depression being absent.
(18) Apart from the company’s Nazi past, its high status in German life, its hitherto exalted reputation for technical excellence and quality control, and its peculiarly dysfunctional governance, there is also the shock to consumers of discovering that while its vehicles are made from steel and composite materials, they are actually controlled by software.
(19) Where music clearly does take on an exalted sense is in the two stories "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk", and "Investigations of a Do".
(20) In a week that has seen at least 40 die and escalating violence in Homs, the country's third largest city, state radio and private stations owned by regime cronies have been blaring out songs exalting Bashar al-Assad as "Abu Hafez", suggesting his son Hafez could succeed him, or anointing him president for "all eternity".
Exult
Definition:
(v. i.) To be in high spirits; figuratively, to leap for joy; to rejoice in triumph or exceedingly; to triumph; as, an exulting heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) I mean, why would they?” Abbott later told reporters in Canberra of the need for action “when you’ve got people born in Australia, educated in Australia, going overseas and exultantly holding up the severed heads of surrendering members of the Iraqi security forces”.
(2) Tony Abbott has defended the need to force people returning from declared conflict zones to prove they were there for legitimate purposes, saying Australian-born fighters were “exultantly holding up the severed heads of surrendering members of the Iraqi security forces”.
(3) It was a phase in Rooke's experience that he never forgot, though never exulted in nor even willingly discussed.
(4) Not that this exultant need for freedom is anything new.
(5) It was a day of relief as well as exultation, manager José Mourinho’s third title with the club, his first since he returned in 2013 for his second stint as manager, and only the fifth Chelsea had ever won, despite all the recent investment from their billionaire owner Roman Abramovich.
(6) One young woman shoots a German soldier and almost vomits with shock; a kindly old postmistress takes an axe to the head of another Nazi, and her face is exultant at the savage act.
(7) Two years later he was outraged when the title track of Born in the USA, written in the voice of an embittered Vietnam veteran, was appropriated by the Republican party, who mistook its deceptively exultant chorus and tried to use it as a flag-waving campaign anthem for Ronald Reagan.
(8) Pope Francis transformed New York City’s entertainment forum, Madison Square Garden, into a realm of worship and reverence on Thursday night to cap an indelible day in which he exulted in and elevated the spirit of America’s raucous, throbbing metropolis.
(9) I used to stand among people, knowing my body was strong and fine, under my dress, and secretly exult."
(10) "I have a friend in Ireland who knit his Action Man an entire kit, including a tent," exults Meg Fairfax-Fielding.
(11) Sue Ledwith Ruskin College, Oxford • Guy Standing exults over Magna Carta as "one of the greatest political documents of all time".
(12) He’s the one representing minorities across the US,” exulted Yuliana Miranda, 23, a teacher, amid deafening chants of “Bernie”.
(13) We did it!” she exulted to cheering supporters two hours after polls closed.
(14) "That," adds Punzo, "is what life has become: the exultation of mediocrity.
(15) I never read Trollope or Wilkie Collins in England, I never swooned exultantly over finding a Virago-edition Rosamond Lehmann novel, or a Two Ronnies video at a yard-sale.
(16) Later in the afternoon, an exultant Trump celebrated with dozens of Republican congressmen at the White House.
(17) When I exultantly spat the knotted string out into my hand, she looked at it and said, horrified, "Is that phlegm?
(18) He would humiliate husbands and sometimes he exulted in a kind of mutual sexual degradation.
(19) The exultant Democrat voiced the deep frustration of millions of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, including “struggling rust belt communities and small towns that have been hollowed out by lost jobs and lost hope”.
(20) As he exits the platform he hi-fives his coach, chalk dust pluming from their exultation.