"exaltation" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a feeling of intense pleasure, joy, or satisfaction, often in response to something that has been achieved or acquired. Example sentence: The exaltation of winning the championship was indescribable.
From prize-winning creative non-fiction to celebrity tell-alls and confessional misery-lit, memoirs have generated critical exaltation, controversy and some serious sales.
Next to sex, he claimed, there was nothing so physically intense as "participation in a mass demonstration at a time of great public exaltation".
Soviet propagandists had none of Mr Kiselev's exaltation, sarcasm and theatricality.
It allows for the public exaltation of the non-partisan Simpson-Bowles plan, despite a general ignorance of that plan's details.
"There was a real atmosphere of exaltation," recalled John Mason, a typesetter, "as though we were concerned with some high service to something outside and about us, and we were truly working for the work's sake .Books from Morris's Kelmscott Press were heavily illustrated, densely printed, proudly medieval.
As for Groucho's attitude toward Eliot's exaltation of art and knowledge, he had this to say: "Well, Art is Art, isn't it?
For Pierre de Coubertin, who revived the Olympics in 1896, the event was about the "exaltation of male athleticism".
Mr Segev describes the Israelis descending on the West Bank like explorers landing on a yearned-for continent, many experiencing a religious exaltation, and swiftly coming to see it as the true Israel, the land of biblical promise.
Hostility to government, rather than its exaltation, is their hallmark.
If he is to prove worthy of the near-universal exaltation with which his election has been greeted, he has to prepare America and the world for the possibility of further American military interventions overseas.This is not to say that it is America that has to provide the 3,000 extra peacekeeping troops the United Nations has asked for in Congo.
