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Exalt vs Elate - What's the difference?

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Exalt is a synonym of elate.


In lang=en terms the difference between exalt and elate

is that exalt is to honor; to hold in high esteem while elate is to lift up; raise; elevate.

As verbs the difference between exalt and elate

is that exalt is to honor; to hold in high esteem while elate is to make joyful or proud.

As an adjective elate is

elated; exultant.

exalt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To honor; to hold in high esteem.
    • They exalted their queen.
  • To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate.
    • The man was exalted from a humble carpenter to a minister.

    Derived terms

    * exaltedly * exaltedness * exalter

    See also

    * exult

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    elate

    English

    Verb

    (elat)
  • To make joyful or proud.
  • To lift up; raise; elevate.

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • elated; exultant
  • * Alexander Pope
    • O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, / Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate .
  • * Mrs. H. H. Jackson
    • Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
  • (obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
  • * Fenton
    • with upper lip elate
  • * Sir W. Jones
    • And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate , / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

    Quotations

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