exaltation

noun7

1. •
   The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
2. •
   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 […] — 1958
3. •
   A feeling of happiness so intense as to be carried away by it; joyful pride bordering on ecstasy, often resulting from acclaim or triumph.
4. •
   A flock of doves, larks or skylarks.

   • An 'exaltation' of skylarks, who will always sing you wet through, as the Watcher says, were warbling against the storm in an upper air and gave me a sudden illusion of sunshine. — 1931
5. •
   That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence.
6. •
   The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
7. •
   (no longer used) An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, observed as a symptom in various forms of insanity.