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‖ exalté, a.|ɛgzalte|
Also fem. exaltée.
[Fr., pa. pple. of exalter to exalt.]
Excited, elated, abnormally happy. Hence as n., a person in a state of elation; a fanatic.
1831J. S. Mill Let. 20–22 Oct. (1910) I. i. 7 The agricultural people are as determined as the manufacturers. The West is as exalté as the North. 1842Ibid. Nov. iii. 123 Capable of almost any degree of exalté feeling from poetry. 1922J. Agate Red Let. Nights (1944) 76 It [sc. Ibsen's Hedda Gabler] contains nothing of awe or terror, nothing to make us fearful lest our exaltées should take to pistol-practice in the garden. 1937New Statesman 30 Oct. 688/1 Costals detests cerebral women, and exaltées are not his type at all. 1941Auden New Year Let. i. 17 Singing or sighing as they go: Exalté, piano, or in doubt. 1946M. Dickens Happy Prisoner ix. 200 She was exaltée, beside herself. 1967Punch 1 Mar. 321/1 Gerold Frank has enough exaltés on his hands to set Dickens and Dostoevsky up in business for a dozen lifetimes. |