What's the difference between exalt and transcendentalist?
Exalt
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.
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".
Transcendentalist
Definition:
(n.) One who believes in transcendentalism.
Example Sentences:
(1) He sounds, as it were, the fatal bottom of our organic existence, and yet claims not merely to accept the universe, as another Transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, put it, but to rejoice in it.
(2) Under the Transcendentalistic category were classified holistic, humanistic, mystic and eastern ideas.
(3) This model does not contain either the contradictions nor polarizations of the positivistic versus transcendentalistic frameworks of thought.
(4) The second stream is that of the austere transcendentalists of the arthouse – Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer – who, recognising the over-abundant, material “fallen” nature of the medium, pursue an aesthetic of scarcity, sparseness, abnegation.
(5) Two main categories, namely Positivistic and Transcendentalistic, frameworks of thought were used.
(6) Thoreau was 27 when he took up residence in the cabin by Walden Pond; he had graduated from Harvard 19th in his class, tried teaching, helped his father in the family pencil business, did local odd jobs for a dollar a day, lived with the Emersons for two years as handyman and gardener, left Long Island after a brief spell of tutoring and testing the literary market, and, despite Emerson's sponsorship and a few poems and essays in the Transcendentalist quarterly The Dial, had made no mark.
(7) Unlike most Transcendentalists, he could do things - tend garden and make home repairs for Emerson, or actualise with real carpentry Bronson Alcott's fanciful vision of a summerhouse.
(8) Imbibing Idealism from Emerson, Thoreau soaked himself in Nature's great metaphor, and became a scientist of sorts - "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot", he later called himself - and an autobiographer.
(9) Meanwhile, in untamed America, the origins of Woodstock could be traced back to the transcendentalist proto-hippies of New England's Fruitlands in the 1840s, who espoused peace and love and militant veganism, down to declining to read at night because it meant burning whale oil.
(10) Before they married, in 1842, there was another break-out on Hawthorne's part when he invested $1,500 in the Transcendentalist-socialist commune of Brook Farm at West Roxbury, just outside Boston.