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
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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Here, the director of some of the most voluble of all films exalts immediate experience and rarefied perception to grand historical dimensions—Oliveira condenses a lifetime of artistic striving into infinitesimal flourishes of overwhelming power.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
In exalting above all other concerns his personal conception of the institutional integrity of the Supreme Court, and by extension the entire judiciary, Roberts has ironically done more than anyone else to delegitimize the courts.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
While a ranking is necessarily an occasion to exalt the greatest and shame the worst, with very few exceptions there’s something to like in every single one of these films, and a few of them even hit greatness.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
Although the slate doesn’t neglect films about boys, among them tales of time-traveling brothers and a boatbuilding father-son team, the choices exalt girl power more than any of the festival’s selections in recent memory.
—Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
In exalting above all other concerns his personal conception of the institutional integrity of the Supreme Court, and by extension the entire judiciary, Roberts has ironically done more than anyone else to delegitimize the courts.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
While a ranking is necessarily an occasion to exalt the greatest and shame the worst, with very few exceptions there’s something to like in every single one of these films, and a few of them even hit greatness.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
Although the slate doesn’t neglect films about boys, among them tales of time-traveling brothers and a boatbuilding father-son team, the choices exalt girl power more than any of the festival’s selections in recent memory.
—Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Exalt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exalt. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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Medical Definition
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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