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The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. / The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.

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exaltation

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exaltation

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˌɛɡ.zɔl.ˈteɪ.ʃən/

Noun

countable uncountable rare archaic

The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. / The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.

Japanese Meaning

崇高な地位や状態に上げる行為、またはその状態 / 物体や本質の洗練、性質・徳が増す現象

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The exaltation of the committee chair after the successful merger was met with applause.

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合併の成功後、その委員長の昇格は拍手で迎えられた。

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The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.

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The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.

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(astrology) That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence.

He often stood there in a muse until dusk fell, and then darkness, while once in a while the moon, ‘in her exaltation’ as the astrologers say, rose to remind him that such worldly musings meant nothing to the hostile universe without.

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(rare) The collective noun for larks.

Oh, I, well, I too fell into error, for I frittered away my morning in stalking yonder exaltation of larks, thinking they were dunlin, and in doing so disturbed the only sord of mallards on the whole marsh.

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