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exaltation

/eg-zawl-tey-shuhn, ek-sawl-/US // ˌɛg zɔlˈteɪ ʃən, ˌɛk sɔl- //UK // (ˌɛɡzɔːlˈteɪʃən) //

超升,超越,升华,超越自我

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of exalting.
    • : the state of being exalted.
    • : elation of mind or feeling, sometimes abnormal or morbid in character; rapture: mystical exaltation; euphoric exaltation.
    • : Chiefly British. a flight of larks.
    • : Astrology. the sign of the zodiac in which the most positive influence of a planet is expressed.
    • : Chemistry. the process of subliming.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounpromotion, praise
Antonyms
noungreat joy

Examples

  • Rather than freeze a particular moment, Worrell seeks to capture the exaltation such an instant can spark.

  • Let’s call it a sigh of relief building to a cheer of exaltation.

  • Clearly a call to charity, this is also an exaltation of parenthood.

  • This exaltation of suffering may be difficult for many non-Catholics to understand.

  • What made more sense than to sing a niggun, a tune of longing and exaltation?

  • Many people think of religion in personal terms, of the solace or insight or exaltation it can provide.

  • One old woman, called Judy, came near having the power, as they call a kind of fit of spiritual exaltation.

  • The sight of her aroused in me feelings which bore, I think, a close resemblance to religious exaltation.

  • She was now in Gemini, and therefore halfway from her exaltation to her depression.

  • But to Charity, in the reaction from her mood of passionate exaltation, there was something disquieting in his silence.

  • Yet these pains in her body, this alternate exaltation and depression, this pitiful weakness!