Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Elevated in rank, character, or status.
- adjective Lofty; sublime; noble.
- adjective Exaggerated; inflated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Raised to a height; elevated highly; dignified; sublime; lofty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified; sublime.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
exalt . - adjective Praised, or honored.
- adjective Noble,
sublime ;heavenly . - adjective Elated; blissful.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
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Examples
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Mostly Shaharrazad is trying to gain "exalted" status with Orgrimmar and the Darkspear trolls.
"I saw everywhere I'd been and want to go to..." greygirlbeast 2009
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Merja women were described as exalted and beautiful, of mythical personal strength, so much so that if a Merjan village was attacked, the women made themselves drown in the river with their jewels and children, in order not to be subjected to robbery or despoiling.
E. Nina Rothe: Aleksei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls: Connecting Tenderness, Nostalgia and Love E. Nina Rothe 2011
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Merja women were described as exalted and beautiful, of mythical personal strength, so much so that if a Merjan village was attacked, the women made themselves drown in the river with their jewels and children, in order not to be subjected to robbery or despoiling.
E. Nina Rothe: Aleksei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls: Connecting Tenderness, Nostalgia and Love E. Nina Rothe 2011
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Merja women were described as exalted and beautiful, of mythical personal strength, so much so that if a Merjan village was attacked, the women made themselves drown in the river with their jewels and children, in order not to be subjected to robbery or despoiling.
E. Nina Rothe: Aleksei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls: Connecting Tenderness, Nostalgia and Love E. Nina Rothe 2011
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Ergo, Leo, when you deem, in exalted moods, that you are at the summit of existence, in truth you are thrilling, vibrating, dancing a mad orgy of the senses and not knowing a step of the dance or the meaning of the orgy.
CHAPTER XXII 2010
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He was knighted, and began to move in exalted social circles, hobnobbing with the grand and wealthy (Prince Metternich was a particular favourite), and writing long, excited letters to Wolff about it all.
Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review Richard Holmes 2010
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But if, to a certain extent, her name exalted the class of people, as little aristocratic as possible, whom she entertained, by an inverse process, the class of people whom the
The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003
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Riker looked at him and saw that he wore an expression of exalted surprise on his face.
Infiltrator W.R. Thompson 1996
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As for me, O my lady, Allah (be His name exalted!) preserved my life that I might suffer whatso He willed to me of hardship, misfortune, and calamity, for I scrambled upon a plank from one of the ships and the wind and waters threw it at the feet of the mountain.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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This lies in their eye, in their design, -- how God may be glorified by them, his name exalted, his interest promoted; this way the bent of their minds and spirits tends.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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