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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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    Moreover it was filled with a sort of exaltation, a lunatic intensity.  (source)
    exaltation = extreme happiness from praising or glorifying
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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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    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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    The sight filled him with exaltation and sadness.†  (source)
    exaltation = elevation with praise, glorify, or honor  OR  filled with extreme happiness
    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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    This other process, TRYING TO HAVE AN IDEA, was nowhere near as exalted or exalting, but it was every bit as mysterious ...and every bit as necessary.†  (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)
    exalteth = elevates with praise, glorify, or honor  OR  fills with extreme happiness
    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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    The same idea exalts conversation with him.†  (source)
    exalts = praises, glorifies, or honors  OR  fills with extreme happiness
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    If under the presentiment of the most magnificent of all victories to be crowned by his own glorious death, a sort of priestly motive led him to dress his person in the jewelled vouchers of his own shining deeds; if thus to have adorned himself for the altar and the sacrifice were indeed vainglory, then affectation and fustian is each more heroic line in the great epics and dramas, since in such lines the poet but embodies in verse those exaltations of sentiment that a nature like Nelson, the opportunity being given, vitalizes into acts.†  (source)
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    9:17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?†  (source)
    exaltest = praise, glorify, or honor  OR  fill with sublime emotion
    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)
    exaltedness = the quality of being glorified or filled with sublime emotion
    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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