exalt

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Meaning

To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.

To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.

To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.

To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument.

To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies.

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Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information. Edward R. Murrow

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Do not merely practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; it deserves that, for only art and science can exalt man to divinity. Ludwig van Beethoven

There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way. Jane Austen

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relation of the least-instructed human beings... George Eliot

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. Amos Bronson Alcott

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