0 to raise someone to a higher rank or more powerful position --
1 to praise someone a lot, or to raise someone to a higher rank or more powerful position --
They complement each other and if one is exalted to the exclusion of the others the result is always undesirable and often positively evil.
Indeed, my faith will be exalted come the next local elections.
They have exalted the vulgarian and scrounger and made life safe for the spiv.
If ever a system was rife for cronyism, this is it, with central party control and cronyism being exalted at all levels.
One exalted his people, the other debases his.
However, the agreeable change—at least agreeable to him— would be exalted if it were described as an industrial policy.
Because it was an imperialist discourse, however, it exalted those things associated with the colonizer, and of course it ultimately positioned the colonizer as the natural ruler of the colonized.
He ' ' exalted his role as novelist/seer.
