exaltation

noun exaltations

1. countable, uncountable The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. The irregular and undisciplined wars which it was her business to describe were naturally far more prolific of extraordinary incidents, unexpected turns of fortune, and striking displays of individual talent, and vice and virtue, than the more solemn movements of national hostility, where everything
2. countable, uncountable A feeling of happiness so intense as to be carried away by it; joyful pride bordering on ecstasy, often resulting from acclaim or triumph.
3. countable, uncountable The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
4. countable, uncountable That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence. 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.
5. Mormonism, countable, uncountable Apotheosis; becoming a god in the highest degree of glory after death. Those who obtain exaltation will gain all power and thus themselves be omnipotent […]
6. collective, countable, uncommon, uncountable A flock of doves, larks or skylarks. An 'exaltation' of skylarks, who will always sing you wet through, as the Watcher says, were warbling against the storm in an upper air and gave me a sudden illusion of sunshine.

   Similar: exultation

7. archaic, countable, uncountable An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, observed as a symptom in various forms of insanity.