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Definition

praise, glorify, or honor

or:

fill with extreme happiness

I'm looking for a small liberal-arts college that exalts the undergraduate experience.

exalts = prizes, honors, or glorifies

looking for a community that does not exalt materialism
a libertarian who exalts liberty
These paintings exalt the imagination
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 in poetry.
Bertrand Russell

(editor's note: 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.)

The philosophical theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas sought to do justice to the natural knowledge of God while at the same time exalting the revealed knowledge in the gospel, and it wove the disparate parts of the tradition into a unified whole.
Christianity - MSN Encarta -- http://encarta.msn.com/text_761576315___0/Christianity.html (retrieved 05/21/06)
exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser
It has never been my weakness to exalt the flesh—far from it; but there is enough of the artist in me to appreciate its wonder.
London, Jack -- The Sea Wolf
For perhaps five seconds exaltation made him careless, and he stepped out on to the pavement without so much as a preliminary glance through the window.
George Orwell -- 1984

exaltation = extreme happiness

His goal is light, goodness and its preservation, and he knows the exaltation of the blessed whose intelligence, sharpened by minute examinations of enormous tracts, is finally called upon to face what may be a bloody fight with the Fiend himself.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

exaltation = extreme happiness

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

exalted = filled with happiness

I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be...
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- I Have a Dream

exalted = elevated with praise, glorify, or honor

Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds.
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness

exalted = elevated (or lofty or above others)

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...
Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet

exalt = fill with sublime emotion

It is that Gotama, the exalted one, who is spreading that teachings.
Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha

exalted = elevated (praised and honored)

The chariots of the exalted one are so near!
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War

exalted = glorified (noble)

HALE, with rising exaltation: You are God's instrument put in our hands to discover the Devil's agents among us.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

exaltation = elevation of spirit

The exaltation, the lunatic enthusiasm, was still in his face.
George Orwell -- 1984

exaltation = extreme happiness from praising or glorifying

Moreover it was filled with a sort of exaltation, a lunatic intensity.
George Orwell -- 1984

exaltation = extreme happiness from praising or glorifying

...most men like to have a secret to tell which may exalt their own importance ...
Dickens, Charles -- Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty

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