English Dictionary

exaltation

/ˌɛɡ.zɔl.ˈteɪ.ʃən/

noun

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.

The exaltation of the crowd was palpable as the team scored the winning goal.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

(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.

意味（4）

(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.

意味（5）

(medicine, archaic) An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, observed as a symptom in various forms of insanity.