exaltation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
    rapture; ecstasy; raptus; transport.
    • listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
  2. noun the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence
  3. noun a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead)
  4. noun the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)
    deification; apotheosis.

WordNet

Ex`al*ta"tion noun
Etymology
L. exaltatio: cf. F.exaltation.
Definitions
  1. The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
    Wondering at my flight, and change To this high exaltation. Milton.
  2. (Alchem.) The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
  3. (Astrol.) That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence.

Webster 1913