exaltation

exaltation
    n 1: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;
         "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles
         Dickens [syn: {ecstasy}, {rapture}, {transport},
         {exaltation}, {raptus}]
    2: the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is
       believed to exert its maximum influence
    3: a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight
       overhead)
    4: the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) [syn:
       {deification}, {exaltation}, {apotheosis}]
    

Exaltation \Ex`al*ta"tion\, n. [L. exaltatio: cf. F.exaltation.]
   1. The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of
      being exalted; elevation.
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            Wondering at my flight, and change
            To this high exaltation.              --Milton.
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   2. (Alchem.) The refinement or subtilization of a body, or
      the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
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   3. (Astrol.) That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it
      was supposed to exert its strongest influence.
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   4. (Med.) An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or
      importance, -- a symptom observed in various forms of
      insanity.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    

174 Moby Thesaurus words for "exaltation":
      accolade, adulation, advance, advancement, aggrandizement,
      altitude, apotheosis, ascent, assumption, beatification, beatitude,
      bepraisement, bewitchment, bigheartedness, bigness, blessedness,
      blessing, bliss, blissfulness, boost, canonization, ceiling, cheer,
      cheerfulness, chivalrousness, chivalry, cloud nine, congratulation,
      consecration, consequence, conspicuousness, dedication,
      deification, delectation, delight, devotion, dignification,
      distinction, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, elevation, eloge,
      eminence, enchantment, encomium, ennoblement, enshrinement,
      enthronement, erection, errantry, escalation, eulogium, eulogy,
      euphoria, excellence, excessive praise, exhilaration, extolment,
      exuberance, felicity, flattery, gaiety, generosity, generousness,
      gladness, glee, glorification, glory, grace, graduation, grandeur,
      great heart, greatheartedness, greatness, greatness of heart,
      hallowing, happiness, hauteur, heaven, height, heighth,
      hero worship, heroism, high mightiness, high spirits,
      high-mindedness, highness, homage, hommage, honor, idealism,
      idolatry, idolizing, immortalization, importance, intoxication,
      joy, joyance, joyfulness, justification, justification by works,
      knight-errantry, knighting, knightliness, kudos, largeheartedness,
      laud, laudation, liberality, liberalness, lifting, lionizing,
      loftiness, magnanimity, magnanimousness, magnification, mark,
      meed of praise, nobility, noble-mindedness, nobleness, notability,
      note, openhandedness, outstandingness, overhappiness,
      overjoyfulness, overpraise, paean, panegyric, paradise, passing,
      pay raise, perpendicular distance, praise, preferment,
      princeliness, prominence, promotion, purification, raise, raising,
      rapture, ravishment, rearing, rise, sainthood, sainting,
      sanctification, setting apart, seventh heaven, significance,
      state of grace, stature, sublimity, sunshine, supereminence,
      sursum corda, tallness, toploftiness, transport, tribute,
      unalloyed happiness, upbuoying, upcast, upgrading, upheaval,
      uplift, uplifting, upping, uprearing, upthrow, upthrust