Sample Sentences for
exalt
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    Moreover it was filled with a sort of exaltation, a lunatic intensity.  (source)
    exaltation = extreme happiness from praising or glorifying
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    I stayed late that night, Gatsby asked me to wait until he was free, and I lingered in the garden until the inevitable swimming party had run up, chilled and exalted, from the black beach, until the lights were extinguished in the guest-rooms overhead.  (source)
    exalted = filled with happiness
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    I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be...  (source)
    exalted = elevated with praise, glorify, or honor
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    It is that Gotama, the exalted one, who is spreading that teachings.  (source)
    exalted = elevated (praised and honored)
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    This is a small hymn to an exaltation of women.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that...  (source)
    exalt = fill with sublime emotion
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    With that concluding word, the whole assembly, exalting their pilgrim's staves, rushed round me in a body; and I, having no weapon to raise in self-defence, commenced grappling with Joseph, my nearest and most ferocious assailant, for his.†  (source)
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    He complacently invests himself with the wealth of those who command him; he shares their fame, exalts himself by their rank, and feeds his mind with borrowed greatness, to which he attaches more importance than those who fully and really possess it.†  (source)
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    "There is nothing pleasant" about soldiering, wrote a corporal from Ohio, but "I can endure its privations ...for there is a big Idea which is at stake ...the principles of Liberty, of Justice, and of the Righteousness which exalteth a Nation."†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She exalteth" in older English, today we say "She exalts."
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    It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardours and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces.†  (source)
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    9:17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou exaltest" in older English, today we say "You exalt."
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    Her words in my ear—words importunate, unfake now—were exaltingly obscene and satisfying.†  (source)
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    They ride upon his back, though they are upright and uncongealed, and perhaps if you and your gracious father are moons that sail and dip in the rainbow lines of Saturn's rings, I am but a true, but a proud tree, on the mountain of the moon, standing upright in the cool light of the blessed protector, whose cloak of silk like a luminous mantle is draped across the stars, and from the dog that rides in the godly sea of space, this exaltedness runs in train, trying to lap its blessed luminous sap.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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