different between glee vs exaltation
glee
English
Etymology
From Middle English gle, from Old English gl?o, gl??, gl?ow, gl?w (“glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery”), from Proto-Germanic *gl?w? (“joy, mirth”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?lew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”). Cognate with Scots gle, glie, glew (“game, play, sport, mirth, joy, rejoicing, entertainment, melody, music”), Old Norse gl? (“joy, glee, gladness”), Ancient Greek ????? (khleú?, “joke, jest, scorn”). A poetic word in Middle English, the word was obsolete by 1500, but revived late 18c.
Pronunciation
- enPR: gl?, IPA(key): /?li?/
- Rhymes: -i?
Noun
glee (countable and uncountable, plural glees)
- (uncountable) Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
- Synonyms: merriment, mirth, gaiety, gloat
- (uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
- (music, countable) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
glee (third-person singular simple present glees, present participle gleeing, simple past and past participle gleed)
- To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).
Anagrams
- Egle, Lege, lege
Limburgish
Noun
glee f
- something that is wet because it has been pasted together
Inflection
- Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
See also
- èpperglieëdjómme
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
From Middle High German klein, kleine, from Old High German kleini, from Proto-Germanic *klainiz (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleh?y- (“to cleave, stick”). Compare German klein, Dutch klein.
Adjective
glee
- small
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exaltation
English
Etymology
From French exaltation, from Latin exalt?ti? (“exaltation, elevation”), from exalt? (“raise, elevate, exalt”), from ex (“from, out of”) + altus (“high”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???.?z?l.?te?.??n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
exaltation (countable and uncountable, plural exaltations)
- The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
- The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
- (astrology) That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 483:
- 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.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 483:
- (rare) The collective noun for larks.
- 1989, Ronald K. Siegel, Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances, Park Street Press (2009), ?ISBN, page 192:
- 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.
- 2005, Lucille Bellucci, Journey from Shanghai, iUniverse (2005), ?ISBN, page 83:
- “I'd like to think of my father being lifted to God in an exaltation of larks.”
- 2005, Linda Bird Francke, On the Road with Francis of Assisi: A Timeless Journey Through Umbria and Tuscany, and Beyond, Random House (2006), ?ISBN, page 232:
- It is said that an exaltation of larks, which had assembled on the roof of Francis's hut, suddenly—and inexplicably—took to the air just after sunset, wheeling and singing.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:exaltation.
- 1989, Ronald K. Siegel, Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances, Park Street Press (2009), ?ISBN, page 192:
- (medicine, archaic) An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, observed as a symptom in various forms of insanity.
Translations
French
Etymology
From Latin exalt?ti?.
Pronunciation
Noun
exaltation f (plural exaltations)
- exaltation
Related terms
- exalter
Further reading
- “exaltation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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