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EXALTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
Example:
a grand purpose
Synonyms:
elevated; exalted; grand; high-flown; high-minded; idealistic; lofty; noble-minded; rarefied; rarified; sublime
Classified under:
Similar:
noble (having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb exalt
Context examples:
This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, an indomitable resolution, self-command, and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats—these form his equipment for the noble work that he is doing for mankind—work both in theory and practice, for his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathy.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He has grown grey in the service, is a gentleman, a favoured guest in the most exalted houses, and, above all, a man whose patriotism is beyond suspicion.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The exalted beings he met there, and to whom he had looked up but a short time before, now bored him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Venus is considered exalted in Pisces, reaching its highest form of beauty.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Yet I have been with good people; far better than you: a hundred times better people; possessed of ideas and views you never entertained in your life: quite more refined and exalted.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Even in our professional correspondence, said Mr. Micawber, glancing at some letters he was writing, the mind is not at liberty to soar to any exalted form of expression.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I started when I saw the name, for it was that of none other than—well, perhaps even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name which is a household word all over the earth—one of the highest, noblest, most exalted names in England.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
How it came to pass, that people were so violently bent upon getting into this assembly, which I allowed to be a great trouble and expense, often to the ruin of their families, without any salary or pension? because this appeared such an exalted strain of virtue and public spirit, that his majesty seemed to doubt it might possibly not be always sincere.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Think of Mycroft’s note, of the Admiralty, the Cabinet, the exalted person who waits for news.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Love was the most exalted expression of life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
