extol vs exalt
Definitions
verb
- praise, glorify, or honor
Examples
A series of enervating campus visits is marked by interchangeably chirpy undergraduate tour guides united by their ability to walk backward while extolling the school's a capella groups and reassuring parents about the high priority placed on security.
Wilkins is now extolling the virtues of organic farming.
Rather than a traditional neoliberal who tries to extol the virtues of trade, he prefers to just ignore its impact entirely.
Definitions
verb
- fill with sublime emotion
- heighten or intensify
- raise in rank, character, or status
- praise, glorify, or honor
Examples
Those who wish to exalt or abnegate Sullivan can do so by linking to his website, discussing his work in their blogs, or can visit the beta version of the Ego Machine online and click on either the "plus" or "minus" sign to add or deduct from Sullivan's store of (after) life points.
And this, to my mind, is his distinctive failing as a writer: that he has exalted charm and mannerliness above all else.
The normal human desire to rid one's self of a tormenting secret, to "exteriorize one's rottenness," finds satisfaction on an exalted plane in confession to God, or to his appointed ministers.
