: an excessively intensified sense of well-being, power, or importance
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: an increase in degree or intensity
exaltation of virulence of a virus
Example Sentences
feelings of joy and exaltation
Recent Examples on the WebHis way of defusing the imminently violent confrontation has the kind of pulp grandeur that, fused with Hayden’s performance and Ray’s compositions, outleaps its commercial framework to latch onto high-cultural exaltation. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2022 When that was updated to 19.31, Lyles tore open his shirt in exaltation. Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2022 There are levels within the Celestial, but the best of the best is a condition known as exaltation, where and when all the good, godly stuff can happen. Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 July 2022 Britain today is a country where religion has been replaced with a kind of state Shintoism in which the monarch is raised in exaltation while her chief ministers are ritually sacrificed to cleanse the nation of its sins. Tom Mctague, The Atlantic, 6 June 2022 Some groups, eager to show solidarity with Ukraine, have added renditions of the Ukrainian national anthem to their programs to counter the overture’s exaltation of czarist Russia. Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2022 Suffice to say that my wife and I saw, course by course, our ecstasy supplanted by surprise, exaltation, wonderment, intrigue, gratitude and, finally, awe. Corey Seymour, Vogue, 1 July 2022 Yet Buckley turns the moment into a kind of exaltation. Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022 How to explain, then, the exaltation that comes with ingesting substances that have no such chemical profile — that are endowed only with our perception of the divine?New York Times, 11 May 2022 See More