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
She had none of that self-exalting quality which must veil the moral lack of which she would surely be made conscious.
From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Ossip Schubin
Let me keep that, and my self-exalting schemes shall be all put by!’
From The Caged Lion by Charlotte Mary Yonge
He is not self-exalting, and therefore he stands high; and inasmuch as he does not strive, no one in all the world strives with him.
From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Wood Besant
