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noun

Exaltation n.

The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. "Wondering at my flight, and change To this high exaltation."

(Alchem.) The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.

(Astrol.) That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence.

(Med.) An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, a symptom observed in various forms of insanity.

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"Exaltation" Quotes from Famous Books

... in its supremacy? So I have always longed; and not grossly; mine has never been the sensual passion; it has been beauty and the heights of life that I have sought. And my curse has been that for me has come no appeasement, no exaltation, but only, always, a dark smouldering of joylessness. With my own hand I broke the great and sacred devotion that blessed my life, because I was thus cursed. Jealousy, the craving for a more complete possession, for the ecstasy I had not found, blind forces in my blood, drove ...

— Tante • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... dwell upon the differences of taste. The Wagnerian ideal is, before everything else, an ideal of power. Wagner's passional and intellectual exaltation and his mystic sensualism are poured out like a fiery torrent, which sweeps away and burns all before it, taking no heed of barriers. Such an art cannot be bound by ordinary rules; it has no need to fear bad taste—and I commend it. But it ...

— Musicians of To-Day • Romain Rolland

... we are to fix the point of the highest exaltation which the power of Lewis, or that of any European prince since the age of Charlemagne, had ever attained. The monarch most capable of opposing his progress was entirely engaged in his interests; and the Turks, invited by the malecontents of Hungary, were preparing to invade the emperor, ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. - From Charles II. to James II. • David Hume

... pass, but Christian thought profited so greatly from the apocalyptic myth that certain contemporary scholars maintain that the whole preaching of Christ referred solely to this one point. The hopes which Luther and Calvin had formed of the religious exaltation of Europe were by no means realised; these fathers of the Reformation very soon seemed men of a past era; for present-day Protestants they belong rather to the Middle Ages than to modern times, and the problems which troubled them most occupy very ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... the verdict of one of the acutest and most dispassionate men that ever lived. Napoleon is not painted as a monster, but as a supremely selfish man bent entirely on his own exaltation, making the welfare of France subservient to his own glory, and the interests of humanity itself secondary to his pride and fame. History can add but little to this graphic sketch, although indignant ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume IX • John Lord

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