Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To raise in rank, character, or status; elevate.
- transitive verb To glorify, praise, or honor.
- transitive verb To increase the effect or intensity of; heighten.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To raise high; lift to a great or unusual altitude; elevate in space.
- To elevate in degree or consideration; bring to a higher or more intense state or condition; raise up, as in rank, character, or quality: as, to
exalt a person to a high office; to exalt the passions. - To attribute or accord exaltation to; make high or elevated in estimation or expression; magnify; glorify; praise; extol.
- In chem., to purify; refine: as, to
exalt the juices or the qualities of bodies. - Synonyms Elevate, Lift, etc. See
raise . - To ennoble, dignify, aggrandize.
- To glorify.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.
- transitive verb To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote.
- transitive verb To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.
- transitive verb To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.
- transitive verb To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument.
- transitive verb (Alchem.) To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
honor ; to hold inhigh esteem . - verb To
raise in rank, status etc., toelevate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb raise in rank, character, or status
- verb praise, glorify, or honor
- verb fill with sublime emotion
- verb heighten or intensify
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And it actually follows what they've done for their media strategy from the very beginning, which is to kind of exalt and super serve the conservative media to the extent that they can, and to undermine and denigrate the mainstream media to the extent that they can.
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_Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories_ present companions for the mind of this hardy sort, and hopes, whether boys read or are told these stories, they will prove to be such as exalt and inspire while they thrill and entertain.
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews
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Moreover, a majority of them can now read, and the books they read are not all such as exalt a military life; there are some which point out its immorality.
The Kingdom of God Is Within You Leo Tolstoy 1869
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Christians "exalt" the Cross of Christ as the instrument of our salvation.
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Christians "exalt" the Cross of Christ as the instrument of our salvation.
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Christians "exalt" the Cross of Christ as the instrument of our salvation.
Clerical Whispers 2008
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"exalt" the virulence of a feebly pathogenic organism, special methods of inoculation are necessary, carefully adjusted to the exigencies of each individual case.
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a Mahometan Paradise, its Pleasures are represented as pure and spiritual; such as exalt our
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Worse, blurring the differences that count — between legal and illegal, permanent and temporary, even American and foreigner — does not exalt immigrants.
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It's so sad that many cultures still exalt one sex above the other.
mohitanand commented on the word exalt
verb: praise or glorify
The teenagers exalted the rock star, covering their bedrooms with posters of him.
October 19, 2016