Exalt
verb
To hold someone or something in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.
The biography exalted the brave deeds of the general
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- exalt someone's virtues
- exalt someone to the skies
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Formal
verb
To raise in rank, character, or status; elevate.
He was exalted to the position of president
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- exalt to a higher position
- exalt to power
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Formal
verb
To cause to feel intense happiness and joy.
His feeling of exaltation was unmistakable
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- exalt in glory
- found himself exalted
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Formal, Approving
verb
In biblical or religious context, to glorify or worship God.
Let us exalt His name together
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- exalt the lord
- exalt his name
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Formal
verb
To hold someone or something in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.
The biography exalted the brave deeds of the general
Often appears as...
- exalt someone's virtues
- exalt someone to the skies
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To raise in rank, character, or status; elevate.
He was exalted to the position of president
Often appears as...
- exalt to a higher position
- exalt to power
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To cause to feel intense happiness and joy.
His feeling of exaltation was unmistakable
Often appears as...
- exalt in glory
- found himself exalted
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
verb
In biblical or religious context, to glorify or worship God.
Let us exalt His name together
Often appears as...
- exalt the lord
- exalt his name
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2High Esteem
Use 'exalt' when expressing intense admiration or respect for a person or idea.
She exalted her mentor's innovative theories.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Literal
The phrase 'exalt to the skies' can be metaphorical, meaning giving extreme praise, not physical elevation.
Critics exalted the novel to the skies.
Pro Tip 1/2High Esteem
Use 'exalt' when expressing intense admiration or respect for a person or idea.
She exalted her mentor's innovative theories.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Literal
The phrase 'exalt to the skies' can be metaphorical, meaning giving extreme praise, not physical elevation.
Critics exalted the novel to the skies.
Pro Tip 1/2High Esteem
Use 'exalt' when expressing intense admiration or respect for a person or idea.
She exalted her mentor's innovative theories.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Literal
The phrase 'exalt to the skies' can be metaphorical, meaning giving extreme praise, not physical elevation.
Critics exalted the novel to the skies.
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Proof: Jimmy Chin on...
oh you know you're a climber your photographer you're so lucky you're doing what you love they're also the two things that drive me even though the insane because you're the most obsessed about them they burn me as much as they exalt my kind of salt right you're really passionate about climbing something and you put your heart and
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Mind-blowing stage...
And his call to convergence still resonates through most of what we're trying to make now. "Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted,
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Killer Whales Playing...
takes its victims straight out to sea without even killing it. And there it plays with its catch as if it were exalting in triumph.
Video examples
Proof: Jimmy Chin on...
oh you know you're a climber your photographer you're so lucky you're doing what you love they're also the two things that drive me even though the insane because you're the most obsessed about them they burn me as much as they exalt my kind of salt right you're really passionate about climbing something and you put your heart and
Video examples
Mind-blowing stage...
And his call to convergence still resonates through most of what we're trying to make now. "Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted,
Video examples
Killer Whales Playing...
takes its victims straight out to sea without even killing it. And there it plays with its catch as if it were exalting in triumph.
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Quote examples
Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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John W. Gardner
American Educator
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
German Poet
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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Antonio Conte
Italian Coach
It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?
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Jesus Christ
Leader
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.
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Saint Augustine
Saint
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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William Samuel Johnson
American Politician
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
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Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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John W. Gardner
American Educator
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
German Poet
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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Antonio Conte
Italian Coach
It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?
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Jesus Christ
Leader
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.
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Saint Augustine
Saint
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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William Samuel Johnson
American Politician
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
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