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extol vs exalt

extol

Definitions

verb

  1. 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.

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exalt

Definitions

verb

  1. fill with sublime emotion
  2. heighten or intensify
  3. raise in rank, character, or status
  4. 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.

For it is hard not to agree with Lucio that the Duke is a ‘seemer’ manipulating the other characters for the perpetuation and exaltation of his own power.

She was the only woman to rise to such an exalted position.

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