All 8 Uses of
exalt
in
Main Street
- She ought to feel exalted.†
Chpt 3 *
- He indicated with a forlornly waving hand the shelves of shoe-boxes, the seat of thin wood perforated in rosettes, the display of shoe-trees and tin boxes of blacking, the lithograph of a smirking young woman with cherry cheeks who proclaimed in the exalted poetry of advertising, "My tootsies never got hep to what pedal perfection was till I got a pair of clever classy Cleopatra Shoes."†
Chpt 10
- They were exalted by the picture of themselves as being simultaneously business-like and artistic.†
Chpt 18
- She was curiously exalted; her voice was strained; she stared not at the company but at the grotesques scrawled on the backs of wing-pieces by forgotten stage-hands.†
Chpt 18
- Kennicott made an excellent land-deal, but as he told her none of the details, she was not greatly exalted or agitated.†
Chpt 19
- She did not feel exalted, but unkempt and furious.†
Chpt 20
- She prayed to Jesus, always to the Son of God, offering him the terrible power of her adoration, addressing him as the eternal lover, growing passionate, exalted, large, as she contemplated his splendor.†
Chpt 21
- She warned herself that she was probably exaggerating; that no young man could have all these exalted qualities.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(exalt) praise, glorify, or honor
or:
fill with extreme happiness