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Exalt   /ɪgzˈɔlt/   Listen
Exalt

verb
(past & past part. exalted; pres. part. exalting)
1.
Praise, glorify, or honor.  Synonyms: extol, glorify, laud, proclaim.  "Glorify one's spouse's cooking"
2.
Fill with sublime emotion.  Synonyms: beatify, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink.  "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"
3.
Heighten or intensify.  Synonyms: animate, enliven, inspire, invigorate.
4.
Raise in rank, character, or status.



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"Exalt" Quotes from Famous Books



... SWAGGER, it was meanly done. If you meant to wipe him out so swiftly, why did you ever exalt him? ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 17, 1892 • Various
... her life, her feeling was changed. She felt that she had failed to do Wynne justice; that she had allowed his cassock to be the sign of a lack of manhood; she accused herself of having wronged him. She began now to exalt him in her thoughts, and to regard him as a hero. She had long been aware of the effect that she had on him. From the morning when she had encountered him at the North End, and had met the quick, troubled glance of his eye, full of doubt and of ...
— The Puritans • Arlo Bates
... all life hereafter, when one human creature has over him a sovereignty more supreme and absolute than Orient servitude adores in the symbols of diadem and sceptre? What crest so haughty that has not bowed before a hand which could exalt or humble! What heart so dauntless that has not trembled to call forth the voice at whose sound open the gates of rapture or despair! That life alone is free which rules, and suffices for itself. That life we ...
— A Strange Story, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... the mistake of thinking that we exalt you for what you may call courage, or that your country will sing your praises," said the general harshly. "Your country will never know how or when you die. You have nothing to gain by dying, not ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... have peaceful ideals inculcated, and to whom militarism is a curse and a misfortune. There are other nations, like our own, so happily situated that the thought of war is never present to their minds. They are wholly free from any tendency improperly to exalt or to practice militarism. These nations should never forget that there must be military ideals no less than peaceful ideals. The exaltation of Nogi's career, set forth so strikingly in Stanley Washburn's little volume on the great Japanese warrior, ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt


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