exaltation
- n a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
- n the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence
- n a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead)
- n the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)
- Jefferson tried to downplay the exaltation of the president above and beyond the average citizen.
- Bill Clinton took the oath, but exaltation is not his style.
- In his photographs of the stick figures and screaming heads carved and scribbled on Paris walls, you find the most unruly human impulses--sex, anger, even exaltation--brought alive .