Crossword clues for exalting
exalting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exalt \Ex*alt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exalted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exalting.] [L. exaltare; ex out (intens.) + altare to make high, altus high: cf.F. exalter. See Altitude.]
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To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.
--Is. xiv. 13.Exalt thy towery head, and lift thine eyes
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To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
--Prov. xiv. 34.He that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
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To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify. ``Exalt ye the Lord.''
--Ps. xcix. 5.In his own grace he doth exalt himself.
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To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.
They who thought they got whatsoever he lost were mightily exalted.
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To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument.
--Is. xxxvii. 23.Now Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her voice.
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(Alchem.) To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies.
With chemic art exalts the mineral powers.
--Pope.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of exalt English)
WordNet
adj. tending to exalt; "an exalting eulogy"; "ennobling thoughts" [syn: ennobling]
Usage examples of "exalting".
But do you not see, that, under the idea of exalting me, he is chalking out a new path for himself.
The intense life that quickened my pulses, and animated my frame, had the effect, not of drawing me into the mazes of active life, but of exalting my lowliness, and of bestowing majestic proportions on insignificant objects--I could have lived the life of a peasant in the same way--my trifling occupations were swelled into important pursuits.
The churches are neglected, and nothing of a unifying or exalting sort takes their place.
Being right under Joan's exalting and transforming eye, he forgot his native prudence, he forgot his diffidence in the presence of danger, he forgot what fear was, and he never laid about him in his imaginary battles in a more tremendous way that he did in this real one.
Were they conscious of putting down the mighty from their seat and exalting the humble and meek?