Definition of Exaltation

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Exaltation Translations

exaltation in Italian is elevamento


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