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Literary notes about Exalt (AI summary)

The term "exalt" is often employed to convey raising something to a position of superior status or praising it in an impressive, even sacred, manner. In religious texts, it appears repeatedly to encourage believers to honor and lift up the divine, as seen where adherents are urged to praise the Lord above everything else ([1], [2], [3]). In literary works, however, its use is more varied: sometimes illustrating the act of elevating one's self to unwarranted pride ([4], [5]), while in other contexts, it describes the enhancement of human qualities or attributes, such as in discussions of fame or personal strength ([6], [7]). Even in rhetorical and philosophical texts, "exalt" encapsulates the idea of bestowing glory or elevating status—from the admiration of heroes in epic poetry ([8], [9]) to the nuanced reflections on character and accomplishment in essays and political discourse ([10], [11]).
  1. Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance: and rule them and exalt them for ever.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  2. O ye seas and rivers, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  3. Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his footstool, for it is holy.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  4. Not so hot: In his own grace he doth exalt himself, More than in your addition.
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  5. And they that hate thee proud and fill Exalt their heads full hie. 3 Against thy people they *contrive *Jagnarimu.
    — from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton
  6. She knew how trial and emotion would exalt and strengthen it.
    — from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  7. The most striking feature in their character is their national pride; they exalt themselves above all other nations.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  8. Four battles won within a year,— Breaker of shields! with swords and spear, And hand to hand, exalt thy fame Above the kings of greatest name.
    — from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
  9. Thine eyes shall see the city Lavinium, their promised home; thou shalt exalt to the starry heaven thy noble Aeneas; nor is my decree reversed.
    — from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
  10. But when the Stoics apply this saying to their wise man, they seem to exalt him too much, and to speak of him with too much admiration.
    — from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  11. Do they pretend to exalt the mind of man, by proving him no better than a beast?
    — from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

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