单词 | exaltation |
释义 | exaltation (once / 1627 pages) 1n 2n 3n If the Prize Patrol showed up at your door with a check for a million dollars, you'd probably be overcome with a feeling of exaltation or overwhelming happiness. Chances are slim, so don't bank on it. Exaltation comes from the Latin exaltare meaning to "raise aloft." When you're in a state of exaltation, your emotions are raised aloft and you're swept away in happiness. Exaltation is also the term for praising someone really highly or raising someone in rank, and for a group of larks, and in astrology, the place in a planet's orbit of maximum influence. Fly an exaltation of larks above the ceremony of your exaltation to Minister of Vocabulary. WORD FAMILYexaltation: exaltations+/exalt: exaltation, exalted, exalting, exalts/exalted: exalteder, exaltedly/exalting: exaltingly USAGE EXAMPLESMeanwhile, Fenella plots her escape and witnesses the furious revolt up close in bewilderment and exaltation. The New Yorker(Dec 15, 2016) They believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven — a legacy of the early Mormon church. Seattle Times(Oct 04, 2016) “The paintings she has created are full of lonely nuance and exaltation, bracketed by a deep silence of mind and spirit.” New York Times(Sep 30, 2016) 1 1n the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) Syn|Hyper apotheosis, deification worship the activity of worshipping 2n a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion 2Syn|Hyper ecstasy, rapture, raptus, transport emotional state, spirit the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection) n a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead) 3Hyper flock a group of birds n the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence Hyper celestial point a point in the heavens (on the celestial sphere) |
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