exaltation

Meanings

1. The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
2. The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
3. That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence.
4. Apotheosis; becoming a god in the highest degree of glory after death.
5. The collective noun for larks.
6. An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, observed as a symptom in various forms of insanity.

Etymology

From Middle English exaltacioun, exaltatioun, from Old French exaltacion and Latin exaltātiō (“exaltation, elevation”), from exaltō (“raise, elevate, exalt”), from ex (“from, out of”) + altus (“high”). By surface analysis, exalt + -ation.