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Exaltation

noun

A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion. Synonyms: ecstasy, rapture, raptus, transport.

The location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence.

A flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead).

The elevation of a person (as to the status of a god). Synonyms: apotheosis, deification.

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"Exaltation" Quotes from Famous Books

... be unhonoured at school or at home. Obituary phrases of a laudatory type sprang like tears to a mind still healthy enough to dash them away again, as though they had been real tears; but it was with all the nervous exaltation of the unsuspected desperado that he inquired his way of a colossal constable at the corner of Pall Mall and ...

— The Camera Fiend • E.W. Hornung

... lives. The miracle of friendship, which came at first with its infinite wonder and beauty, wears off, and the glory fades into the light of common day. The early charm passes, and the soul forgets the first exaltation. We are always in danger of mistaking the common for the commonplace. We must not look upon it merely as the great luxury of life, or it will cease to be even that. It begins with emotion, but if it is ...

— Friendship • Hugh Black

... had hitherto been considered a divine honor and was accorded to the gods alone. When these heroes were represented, the artists, not being bound by any laws, could study their subjects and represent them to the life as nearly as they were able to do. This exaltation of the Olympian victors gave an opportunity for the development of sculpture such as cannot be over-estimated in its influence ...

— A History of Art for Beginners and Students - Painting, Sculpture, Architecture • Clara Erskine Clement

... evening of the 17th of February, 1864, we were ordered to get ready to move at daybreak the next morning. We were certain this could mean nothing else than exchange, and our exaltation was such that we did little sleeping that night. The morning was very cold, but we sang and joked as we marched over the creaking bridge, on our way to the cars. We were packed so tightly in these that it was impossible to even ...

— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy

... had evacuated the town and no serious opposition was made to the British entry. The most effective resistance came from a single schoolmaster, who, in a moment of irrational frenzy or of patriotic exaltation, shot down three of the invaders before he met his own death. Some rolling stock, one small gun, and something under a hundred prisoners were the trophies of the capture, but the Boer arsenal and the printing press were destroyed, and the Government sped ...

— The Great Boer War • Arthur Conan Doyle

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