exalt

• They are for the most part crude tales that have entirely mistaken the real character of him whom they seek to exalt, and need only to be read to be rejected. —  The Life of Jesus of Nazareth
• Sir, I speak what I feel, and I dare say I express a sentiment which has impressed itself upon many other bosoms in this assembly, when I say that his sudden death in the midst of our deliberations, seems to me to exalt--in some degree to canonize--our labors. —  A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
• Still, I have seen plates produced quite recently, more beautiful, I think, in some qualities than anything ever before attained by the burin: and I have not the slightest fear that photography, or any other adverse or competitive operation, will in the least ultimately diminish,--I believe they will, on the contrary, stimulate and exalt--the grand old powers of the wood and the steel 11. —  Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870
• Hence, it is common with the sacred writers to say [178]_My horn shalt thou exalt--[179]his horn shall be exalted with honour--[180]the horn of Moab is cut off: and the Evangelist[181] speaks of Christ as a horn of salvation to the world. —  A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
• Intending to exalt, they debase the imaginary object of their adoration. —  An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles

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