Definition of Exalt

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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

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Horace Walpole

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

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.
Walter Lippmann

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

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
Thomas B. Macaulay

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

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
William Samuel Johnson

Exalt Translations

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

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