All 5 Uses of
exalt
in
Babbitt
- I suppose you're trying to rub in your exalted social position!†
Chpt 1 *
- He beheld the tower as a temple-spire of the religion of business, a faith passionate, exalted, surpassing common men; and as he clumped down to breakfast he whistled the ballad "Oh, by gee, by gosh, by jingo" as though it were a hymn melancholy and noble.†
Chpt 1
- He was also no less an official than Esteemed Leading Knight in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and it was rumored that at the next election he would be a candidate for Exalted Ruler.†
Chpt 5
- He was plumply pleased by salutes on the street from unknown small boys; his ears were tickled to ruddy ecstasy by hearing himself called "Colonel;" and if he did not attend Sunday School merely to be thus exalted, certainly he thought about it all the way there.†
Chpt 17
- Of course I'm not accustomed to associating with society people like you, so I don't know how to act in such exalted circles!†
Chpt 29
Definition:
praise, glorify, or honor
or:
fill with extreme happiness
or:
fill with extreme happiness