exaltation

1. (astrology) That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence.Examples: "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."countableuncountable

2. (Mormonism) Apotheosis; becoming a god in the highest degree of glory after death.Examples: "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."Mormonismcountableuncountable

3. (uncommon) The collective noun for larks.Examples: ""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.”"countableuncommonuncountable

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