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superexalted

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /suːpəɹˈɪɡˈzɔːltɪd/

Verb

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superexalted

  1. simple past and past participle of superexalt

Adjective

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superexalted (comparative more superexalted, superlative most superexalted)

  1. (rare) Raised to the highest status or rank; supremely exalted
    • 1828, Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber, Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., Lord Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore: With a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings[1], Printed for C. and J. Rivington, page 74:
      But I hope we may have leave to say we un- derstand more concerning bodies and their nature, than concerning the persons of the holy Trinity: and therefore we may be sure, in the matter of bodies, to know what is, and Avhat is not possible; when we can know no measure of truth or error in all the mysteriousnesses of so high and separate, superexalted secrets, as that of the holy Trinity.
    • 1911, Paul Samuel Reinsch, Intellectual and Political Currents in the Far East[2], Houghton Mifflin Company, page 295:
      He contrasts them with the Hindus, who are easily carried into superexalted fantasies; the Japanese have no cosmologies, no philosophical rhapsodies, such as the Hindus have developed. They are moral positivists.
    • 1924, The New Statesman 1924-03-08: Volume 22, Issue 568[3], New Statesman Limited, page 633:
      A new earth, where all their waters are milk and all their milk honey; where all their grass is corn, and all their corn manna; where all their glebe, and all their clods of earth, are gold; and all their gold of innumerable carats; where all their minutes are ages, and all their ages eternity; where everything is every minute in the highest exaltation, as good as it can be, and yet superexalted and infinitely multiplied by every minute's addition; every minute infinitely better than ever it was before.