exaltation

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act of exalting or the condition of being exalted.
2. n. A state or feeling of intense, often excessive exhilaration or well-being.
3. n. A flight of larks. See Synonyms at flock¹.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of raising high, or the state of being raised high; elevation as to power, office, rank, dignity, or excellence; a state of dignity or loftiness: as, exaltation of rank or character. The word is specifically applied to the induction of a pope into office: as, the exaltation of Leo XIII.
2. n. Mental elevation; a state of mind in which a person possesses elevated thoughts and noble aspirations.
3. n. In alchemy, the refinement or subtilization of bodies or of their qualities and virtues.
4. n. In astrology, an essential dignity, next in importance to that of house; that situation of a planet in the zodiac where it was supposed to have the most influence. The sun is in exaltation in the 19th degree of Aries, the moon in the 3d degree of Taurus, Jupiter in the 15th degree of Cancer, Mercury in the 15th degree of Virgo, Saturn in the 21st degree of Libra, Mars in the 28th degree of Capricorn, Venus in the 27th degree of Pisces. The position of the sun's exaltation is that in which he passes wholly to the upper side of the zodiac. The reasons for the other positions given by Ptolemy are arbitrary and fanciful.
5. n. In falconry, a flight of larks.
6. n. An abnormal mental condition marked by an overweening sense of self-importance (amounting even to delusions of grandeur), an optimistic contentedness with one's surroundings or condition, and a state almost of rapture or ecstasy.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
2. n. The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
3. n. astrology That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence.
4. n. rare The collective noun for larks.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
2. n. (Alchem.) The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
3. n. (Astrol.) That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence.
4. n. (Med.) An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, -- a symptom observed in various forms of insanity.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead)
2. n. a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
3. n. the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence
4. n. the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)