Definition of Exaltation

Exaltation

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

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

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

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

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Exaltation Quotations

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Bertrand Russell

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
Phillips Brooks

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Andre Breton

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Edith Hamilton

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
John Ralston Saul

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
Stephane Mallarme

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
Adam Ferguson

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Exaltation Translations

exaltation in Italian is elevamento

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