0 a very strong feeling of happiness
1 the act of raising someone to a higher rank or more powerful position
2 the act of raising someone or something to a more important position:
the exaltation of art
They are willing to live in a state of dangerous exaltation in which they hold even their own lives at a relatively low price.
There was a feeling of anxiety and a great exaltation of mind.
We are not debating the takeover of somebody by somebody else—the destruction of one form of council and the exaltation of another form.
I should have thought that we would have detected from him a sense of exaltation and gratitude, but we did not.
Then the very idea of proportional representation is the subordination of the individuality of the candidate and the exaltation of party and party principles.
Such statements inspire momentary exaltation, but the reaction is decidely unpleasant.
We have had the exaltation of the trader and the depression of the producer.
We have made our exaltation known to them personally already.