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Exaltation

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Exaltation 

an excited, rapturous state; in physiology, a transient period of heightened sensitivity of nerve and muscle tissues that gives way to a period of lowered, subnormal sensitivity.
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Only at rare moments of exaltation or despair do we hear the lyrical cry rising above the monotone of dreamlike content.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
For there example teacheth, company comforteth, emulation quickeneth, glory raiseth: so as in such places the force of custom is in his exaltation.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
This was the winter when my friend Piatt and I made our first literary venture together in those 'Poems of Two Friends;' which hardly passed the circle of our amity; and it was altogether a time of high literary exaltation with me.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
 
 
 
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