Definitions for exalt

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exalt ex·alt

Spelling: [ig-zawlt]

IPA: /ɪgˈzɔlt/

Exalt is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in exalt (aeltx).

Definitions for exalt

verb (used with object)

1. to raise in rank, honor, power, character, quality, etc.; elevate:
2. to praise; extol:
3. to stimulate, as the imagination:
4. to intensify, as a color:
5. Obsolete. to elate, as with pride or joy.

Origin of exalt

1375-1425; late Middle English exalten Latin exaltāre to lift up, equivalent to ex- ex-¹ + alt(us) high + -āre infinitive ending

Examples for exalt

It is not in the nature of civilisation to exalt the savage.

They would not exalt him to the regions of air, but they o'ercanopy him on earth.

Which of these statues is calculated to uplift and to exalt all who come near?

Favour for a person will exalt the one, as disfavour will sink the other.

Some of its votaries, on the other hand, are inclined to exalt it unduly.

Did He pretend to exalt Himself above Abraham and the prophets?

I am afraid he had none of the graces that can exalt one of these affairs.

Not exactly the kind of jobs a new president wants to exalt as the solution of the future.

Washington has a serious tendency to exalt semantics over common sense.

For how many years has it been my intention to exalt and ennoble you!