[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being exalted: a. in character, mind, nature, etc.: b. in social position, rank, etc.
a. 1659. H. More, Immort. Soul (1662), 171. The Soul of the Mother, in which there is no such measure of purification and exaltedness.
1742. Gray, Wks. (1825), II. 113. The exaltedness of some minds … may make them insensible to these light things.
1816. Byron, Siege Cor., xii. The stern exaltedness of zeal.
1881. A. B. Bruce, Chief End Revelat., iii. 132. The Divine perfection … is judged of by reference, not to the idea of grace, but rather to that of exaltedness above the world.
b. 1730–6. Bailey (folio), Exaltedness … height of promotion.
1860. Pusey, Min. Proph., 374. Pride doth imitate exaltedness.
