exalted; exalting; exalts
1
: to raise in rank, power, or character
2
: to elevate by praise or in estimation : glorify
3
obsolete
: elate
4
: to raise high : elevate
5
: to enhance the activity of : intensify
rousing and exalting the imagination—
George Eliot
George Eliot
: to induce exaltation
exalter
noun
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Examples of exalt in a Sentence
His behavior has exalted the power and prestige of his office.
The essay exalts the simple beauty of the country.
We exalt thee, O Lord.
He shamelessly exalts his own role in the peace process.
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Whatever happened to exalting the Thinker over the armored knight?
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2024
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—Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
What the movie underpins for me is that really powerful people are, well, just people, no matter how exalted their stations in public life might be.
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The mall is an elegy for what mid-20th-century politicians and progressives imagined downtown Los Angeles could be: a city with a vibrant core, accessible by freeways, anchored by a City Hall with encomiums inscribed above entrances exalting the public good.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2024
Still, others found these movies critical of science while also exalting it.
—Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
What the movie underpins for me is that really powerful people are, well, just people, no matter how exalted their stations in public life might be.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The mall is an elegy for what mid-20th-century politicians and progressives imagined downtown Los Angeles could be: a city with a vibrant core, accessible by freeways, anchored by a City Hall with encomiums inscribed above entrances exalting the public good.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Exalt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exalt. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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exalt
transitive verb
ex·alt
ig-ˈzȯlt 
: to cause (virulence) to increase
virulence exalted by addition of mucin to a bacterial culture
also
: to increase the virulence of
exalt a virus by repeated rapid passage through susceptible hosts
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