Exaltation Meaning

"The irregular and undisciplined wars which it was her business to describe were naturally far more prolific of extraordinary incidents, unexpected turns of fortune, and striking displays of individual talent, and vice and virtue, than the more solemn movements of national hostility, where everything is in a great measure provided and foreseen, and where the inflexible subordination of rank, and the severe exactions of a limited duty, not only take away the inducement, but the opportunity, for those exaltations of personal feeling and adventure which produce the most lively interest, and lead to the most animating results." — 2023, The Most Influential Women in History:

"He often stood there in a muse until dusk fell, and then darkness, while once in a while the moon, ‘in her exaltation’ as the astrologers say, rose to remind him that such worldly musings meant nothing to the hostile universe without." — 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 483:

"Those who obtain exaltation will gain all power and thus themselves be omnipotent […]" — 1958, Bruce R. McConkie, “Omnipotence”, in Mormon Doctrine, 1st edition, page 492:

"Mormon commentators have taken various position about whether people who have died could move from a lower degree of glory—what non-Mormons might call salvation—to a higher one and eventually reach exaltation and become gods." — 2019, Thomas G. Alexander, Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith, →ISBN, page 209:

""Oh, I, well, I too fell into error, for I frittered away my morning in stalking yonder exaltation of larks, thinking they were dunlin, and in doing so disturbed the only sord of mallards on the whole marsh."" — 1893 September 27, The Bazaar, the Exchange and Mart, London, page 800, column 3: