Joy vs Exaltation - What's the difference?
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A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.
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, title= Anything that causes such a feeling.
* Bible, 1 Thess. ii. 20
* Keats
(obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
* Spenser
* Dryden
To feel joy, to rejoice.
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*:for oftymes or this oure lord shewed hym vnto good men and vnto good knyghtes in lykenes of an herte But I suppose from hens forth ye shalle see no more / and thenne they Ioyed moche / and dwelled ther alle that day / And vpon the morowe whan they had herde masse / they departed and commaunded the good man to god
*1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18:
*:I swore readily enough to this and he joyed with exceeding joy and embraced me round the neck while love for him possessed my whole heart.
(archaic) To enjoy.
*1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i.2:
*:For from the time that Scudamour her bought, / In perilous fight, she neuer ioyed day.
*Milton
*:Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss.
(obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.
*Dryden
*:Joy us of our conquest.
*Prior
*:To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe.
(obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
*Shakespeare
*:Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits.
The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
(astrology) That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence.
*1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 483:
*:He often stood there in a muse until dusk fell, and then darkness, while once in a while the moon, ‘in her exaltation ’ as the astrologers say, rose to remind him that such worldly musings meant nothing to the hostile universe without.
(rare) The collective noun for larks.
* 1989 , Ronald K. Siegel, Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances , Park Street Press (2009), ISBN 1594770697,
* 2005 , Lucille Bellucci, Journey from Shanghai , iUniverse (2005), ISBN 0594343732,
* 2005 , Linda Bird Francke, On the Road with Francis of Assisi: A Timeless Journey Through Umbria and Tuscany, and Beyond , Random House (2006), ISBN 9780345469663,
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English collective nouns
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As nouns the difference between joy and exaltation
is that joy is a feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good while exaltation is the act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.As a verb joy
is to feel joy, to rejoice.As a proper noun Joy
is {{given name|female|from=English}}.joy
English
(wikipedia joy)Noun
- a child's joy on Christmas morning
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
- Ye are our glory and joy .
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
- Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.
- The roofs with joy resound.
Antonyms
* (feeling of happiness) infelicity, joylessness, unhappiness, unjoyDerived terms
* bundle of joy * cocky's joy * enjoy * joyance * joyful * joygasm * joyless * joyous * joy ride * joystick * jump for joy * killjoy * no joy * overjoy * traveller's joy * unjoyVerb
(en verb)Statistics
*exaltation
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Noun
(en noun)page 192:
- In a sense, the editorial cartoons were correct when they suggested that an exaltation of larks can fly under the influence into an aspect of vulturous behavior.
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- “I'd like to think of my father being lifted to God in an exaltation of larks.”
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- It is said that an exaltation of larks, which had assembled on the roof of Francis's hut, suddenly—and inexplicably—took to the air just after sunset, wheeling and singing.