Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being exalted, elevated, or elated.
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- noun The state of being
exalted .
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Examples
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Said a wise man, “Wisdom is the exaltedness of human life.”
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AHMED: Exactly, which is praising the exaltedness of God himself, the glory to God.
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AHMED: Exactly, which is praising the exaltedness of God himself, the glory to God.
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Howe — such lamentations for the loss of so charming a relation! such applaudings of her virtue, of her exaltedness of soul and sentiment! such menaces of disinherisons!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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For so doth pride imitate exaltedness; whereas Thou alone art
The Confessions 1999
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Pico to temper the One's exaltedness by the reciprocal love binding men with the creative personal God.
IDEA OF GOD, 1400-1800 JAMES COLLINS 1968
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Hence Augustine says (Confess. ii, 6): "Pride imitates exaltedness; whereas Thou alone art God exalted over all."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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For so doth pride imitate exaltedness; whereas Thou alone art God exalted over all.
The Second Book 1909
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Elsa and I stood by her for a while, all in our buckram, living monuments of bliss and exaltedness.
The King's Mirror Anthony Hope 1898
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This is a disposition to strive to excel others, even at their expense — exaltedness.
The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Charles Ebert Orr 1897
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