[SUPER- 10; cf. prec.] Exaltation to a higher or the highest degree; supreme or excessive exaltation.
1624. D. Cawdrey, Humilitie Saints Liverie, 40. God will haue his will done, onely with reason: The proud man will haue his against all reason; There’s his superexaltation of him, aboue all that is called God.
1627. Donne, Serm. Exod. iv. 13 (1640), 42. The over-bending, and super-exaltation of zeale.
a. 1661. Holyday (J.). In a superexaltation of courage, they seem as greedy of death as of victory.
1880. Athenæum, 25 Sept., 395/1. The superexaltation of St. Peter in face of the historical evidence which remains as to St. Paul’s influence at Rome.
1887. J. Hutchison, Lect. Philippians, x. 103. God highly exalted Him. This super-exaluation, then, is described as of God’s favour.
