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The term “elevated” is intriguingly versatile in literature, serving both literal and figurative purposes. Authors use it to denote physical height or an upwardly raised position, as in describing raised structures, landscapes, or bodily postures [1], [2]. At the same time, it conveys a sense of moral, intellectual, or social superiority, where characters or ideas are lifted to a noble or dignified status [3], [4], [5]. In some contexts, its usage extends to suggest a refined tone or an exalted state of emotion and thought, thereby linking the physical ascent with an abstract sense of excellence and grandeur [6], [7]. This multifaceted application underlines the word’s powerful capacity to enrich narrative layers with both tangible and transcendent qualities.
  1. His station had been on a certain elevated place, whither a few steps led him, and whither he had retired in the dark by himself.
    — from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
  2. We walked over moderately elevated and dry ground for about a mile, and then descended (three or four feet only) to the dry bed of another creek.
    — from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  3. VII It is proper to observe that in human life nothing is truly great which is despised by all elevated minds.
    — from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus
  4. [104] elevated him to the altitude of a hero, and finally even of a martyr.
    — from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  5. We are elevated to a rank and dignity above ourselves.
    — from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld
  6. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality and lifts the spirit to a state of hallowed and elevated enjoyment.
    — from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving
  7. But the sublime emotions of pure devotion gradually elevated his views above this world, and finally brought comfort to his heart.
    — from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

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