exaltation
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌɛɡ.ˌzɔl.ˈteɪ.ʃən/
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.
- (astrology) That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 483:
- He often stood there in a muse until dusk fell, and then darkness, while once in a while the moon, ‘in her exaltation’ as the astrologers say, rose to remind him that such worldly musings meant nothing to the hostile universe without.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 483:
- (rare) The collective noun for larks.
- 1989, Ronald K. Siegel, Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances, Park Street Press (2009), ISBN 1594770697, page 192 ↗:
- In a sense, the editorial cartoons were correct when they suggested that an exaltation of larks can fly under the influence into an aspect of vulturous behavior.
- 2005, Lucille Bellucci, Journey from Shanghai, iUniverse (2005), ISBN 0595343732, page 83 ↗:
- “I'd like to think of my father being lifted to God in an exaltation of larks.”
- 2005, Linda Bird Francke, On the Road with Francis of Assisi: A Timeless Journey Through Umbria and Tuscany, and Beyond, Random House (2006), ISBN 9780345469663, page 232 ↗:
- It is said that an exaltation of larks, which had assembled on the roof of Francis's hut, suddenly—and inexplicably—took to the air just after sunset, wheeling and singing.
- 1989, Ronald K. Siegel, Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances, Park Street Press (2009), ISBN 1594770697, page 192 ↗:
- (medicine, archaic) An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, observed as a symptom in various forms of insanity.
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