exalt
verb (used with object)
to raise in rank, honor, power, character, quality, etc.; elevate.
is exalting
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present progressiveof exalt (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The vision of agony, or spiritual contest, pushed beyond the limits of the dying personality, is exalting and cleansing.
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer
To us the music of the spheres is exalting as it is exalted; and the music of earth is a "sphere-descended maid, friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid."
From Moon Lore by Timothy Harley
Woman,--she fell, yet her name will ever stand foremost in the ranks of all that is exalting.
From Natalie A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds by Ferna Vale
That is exalting technique, and the so-called “well-made” play, above truth to life.
From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker
Swinburne is less amusing when he is exalting the Elizabethans than when he is cleaving the skull of a pet aversion.
From The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd
