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EXALT

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Raise in rank, character, or status

Example:

exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "exalt" is one way to...):

elevate; lift; raise (raise in rank or condition)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exalt"):

deify (exalt to the position of a God)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

exaltation (the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Praise, glorify, or honor

Example:

glorify one's spouse's cooking

Synonyms:

exalt; extol; glorify; laud; proclaim

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "exalt" is one way to...):

praise (express approval of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exalt"):

canonise; canonize (treat as a sacred person)

ensky (exalt to the skies; lift to the skies or to heaven with praise)

crack up (rhapsodize about)

hymn (praise by singing a hymn)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

exaltation (the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Fill with sublime emotion

Example:

He was inebriated by his phenomenal success

Synonyms:

beatify; exalt; exhilarate; inebriate; thrill; tickle pink

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "exalt" is one way to...):

elate; intoxicate; lift up; pick up; uplift (fill with high spirits; fill with optimism)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The good news will exalt her

Derivation:

exaltation (a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Heighten or intensify

Example:

These paintings exalt the imagination

Synonyms:

animate; enliven; exalt; inspire; invigorate

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "exalt" is one way to...):

excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exalt"):

encourage (inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

exaltation (a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion)

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 Context examples: 

I pray you to wait upon him and tell him that a very humble knight of England abides here, so that if he be in need of advancement, or have any small vow upon his soul, or desire to exalt his lady, I may help him to accomplish it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There he had seen everything to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost; and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, an indomitable resolution, self-command, and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats—these form his equipment for the noble work that he is doing for mankind—work both in theory and practice, for his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mars is considered exalted in Capricorn.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Love was the most exalted expression of life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Think of Mycroft’s note, of the Admiralty, the Cabinet, the exalted person who waits for news.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Perhaps it impressed me the more then, because it was new to me, but it certainly did not tend to exalt my opinion of, or to strengthen my confidence in, Mr. Jack Maldon.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yet I have been with good people; far better than you: a hundred times better people; possessed of ideas and views you never entertained in your life: quite more refined and exalted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And so, exalted, upborne by a sense of power, I turned my back on the howling inferno and climbed to the deck, where the fog drifted ghostly through the night and the air was sweet and pure and quiet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

For although, since my unfortunate exile from the Houyhnhnm country, I had compelled myself to tolerate the sight of Yahoos, and to converse with Don Pedro de Mendez, yet my memory and imagination were perpetually filled with the virtues and ideas of those exalted Houyhnhnms.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)