exaltation

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
2. (countable, uncountable)The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
3. (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.”

4. (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 […]”

   “Mormon commentators have taken various position about whether people who have died could move from a lower degree of glory—what non-Mormons might call salvation—to a higher one and eventually reach exaltation and become gods.”

5. (countable, uncommon, uncountable)The collective noun for larks.

   “"Oh, I, well, I too fell into error, for I frittered away my morning in stalking yonder exaltation of larks, thinking they were dunlin, and in doing so disturbed the only sord of mallards on the whole marsh."”

   “In a sense, the editorial cartoons were correct when they suggested that an exaltation of larks can fly under the influence into an aspect of vulturous behavior.”

   ““I'd like to think of my father being lifted to God in an exaltation of larks.””

   “It is said that an exaltation of larks, which had assembled on the roof of Francis's hut, suddenly—and inexplicably—took to the air just after sunset, wheeling and singing.”

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