exalt
verb (used with object)
to raise in rank, honor, power, character, quality, etc.; elevate.
self-exalting
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a word derived from
exalt.
Example Sentences
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If there were a Best High-Budget Selfies award, Bradley Cooper would have little competition for his self-exalting direction and performance in “A Star Is Born.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 22, 2019
Answers to personal and political struggles can’t be found in the next great politicians, in any self-exalting self-help seminar, or in the next cultural trend.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 15, 2015
But the profession of such is begun with an ignorant, whole, self-righteous heart; it is continued in pride, self-seeking, and self-exalting, and ends in awful disappointment.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
Accursed be the high opinion Hugged by the self-exalting mind!
From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Charles Timothy Brooks
Ah, how unlike the ministry of the Son of man had been Blair's proud, self-exalting, unloving demeanor.
From The Boy Patriot by Edward Sylvester Ellis
