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Definition of Exalt
Exalt

To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

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.

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

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

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

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

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Exalt Quotations

But genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
Edward R. Murrow

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.
Matthew Simpson

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.
David Hume

Exalt Translations

exalt in Italian is glorificare
exalt in Latin is glorifico, attollo, effero, extollo
exalt in Spanish is exaltar


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