exalt

[ex·alt]

You might like your manager, but if you exalt her, it means you really put her on a pedestal and treat her like royalty.

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To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

Verb
raise in rank, character, or status; "exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King''s adviser"

Verb
praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one''s children"; "glorify one''s spouse''s cooking"

Verb
fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink (exhilarate is obsolete in this usage); "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"

Verb
heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"

v. t.
To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

v. t.
To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.

v. t.
To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.

v. t.
To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.

v. t.
To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument.

v. t.
To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies.

Exalt

Ex*alt" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exalted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exalting.] [L. exaltare; ex out (intens.) + altare to make high, altus high: cf.F. exalter. See Altitude.] 1. To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.

Exalt thy towery head, and lift thine eyes

2. To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

He that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

3. To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify. "Exalt ye the Lord." Ps. xcix. 5.

In his own grace he doth exalt himself.

4. To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.

They who thought they got whatsoever he lost were mightily exalted.

5. To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument. Is. xxxvii. 23.

Now Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her voice.

6. (Alchem.) To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies.

With chemic art exalts the mineral powers.

To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

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Usage Examples

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

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.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.