exaltation

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The act of exalting or raising high

   The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.

2. 2

   The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal…

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

3. 3

   That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest…

   That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence.

   • He often stood there in a muse until dusk fell, and then darkness, while once in a while the moon, ‘in her exaltation’ as the astrologers say, rose to remind him that such worldly musings meant nothing to the hostile universe without.
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   1. 4

      Apotheosis

      Apotheosis; becoming a god in the highest degree of glory after death.

      • Those who obtain exaltation will gain all power and thus themselves be omnipotent […]
      • Mormon commentators have taken various position about whether people who have died could move from a lower degree of glory—what non-Mormons might call salvation—to a higher one and eventually reach exaltation and become gods.
   2. 5

      The collective noun for larks.

      • "Oh, I, well, I too fell into error, for I frittered away my morning in stalking yonder exaltation of larks, thinking they were dunlin, and in doing so disturbed the only sord of mallards on the whole marsh."
      • In a sense, the editorial cartoons were correct when they suggested that an exaltation of larks can fly under the influence into an aspect of vulturous behavior.
      • “I'd like to think of my father being lifted to God in an exaltation of larks.”
   3. 6

      An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, observed as a symptom in…

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

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