Definition of "exaltation"

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.

1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 483

Those who obtain exaltation will gain all power and thus themselves be omnipotent […]

1958, Bruce R. McConkie, “Omnipotence”, in Mormon Doctrine, 1st edition, page 492

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.

2019, Thomas G. Alexander, Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith, page 209

"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."

1893 September 27, The Bazaar, the Exchange and Mart, London, page 800, column 3

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.

1989, Ronald K. Siegel, Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances, Park Street Press, published 2009, page 192

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

2005, Lucille Bellucci, Journey from Shanghai, iUniverse, published 2005, page 83

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.

2005, Linda Bird Francke, On the Road with Francis of Assisi: A Timeless Journey Through Umbria and Tuscany, and Beyond, Random House, published 2006, page 232