exalted; exalting; exalts
1
: to raise in rank, power, or character
2
: to elevate by praise or in estimation : glorify
3
obsolete
: elate
4
: to raise high : elevate
5
: to enhance the activity of : intensify
rousing and exalting the imagination—
George Eliot
George Eliot
: to induce exaltation
exalter
noun
Examples of exalt in a Sentence
His behavior has exalted the power and prestige of his office.
The essay exalts the simple beauty of the country.
We exalt thee, O Lord.
He shamelessly exalts his own role in the peace process.
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Weeping delights in the exalted, the sublime, the magnificent — a symphony, a vista, megafauna, even a brilliant dissertation.
—Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
In developing proprietary colors and in-house embroideries, the late founder set a template that Shukla is exalting.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
Summer is usually the time of long days and longer vacations, but summer 2025 was a season where the business world’s inviolable godhead, the chief executive officer, looked less and less like a position worth exalting.
—Ian Chaffee, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
While knowledge has been exalted by artists, poets, philosophers and scientists, dictatorships have been opposed not only by great humanists but also by science itself.
—Davide Sartini, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
In developing proprietary colors and in-house embroideries, the late founder set a template that Shukla is exalting.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
Summer is usually the time of long days and longer vacations, but summer 2025 was a season where the business world’s inviolable godhead, the chief executive officer, looked less and less like a position worth exalting.
—Ian Chaffee, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
While knowledge has been exalted by artists, poets, philosophers and scientists, dictatorships have been opposed not only by great humanists but also by science itself.
—Davide Sartini, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Exalt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exalt. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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Medical Definition
exalt
transitive verb
ex·alt
ig-ˈzȯlt 
: to cause (virulence) to increase
virulence exalted by addition of mucin to a bacterial culture
also
: to increase the virulence of
exalt a virus by repeated rapid passage through susceptible hosts
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