exaltation
eg-zawl-TAY-shun
A flock of larks. One of the great collective nouns — the birds spiral upward singing, and the word names both the flight and the feeling it produces in the listener.
Etymology
From the 15th-century Book of St. Albans. Latin exaltatio, a lifting up. The lark exalts itself — rises, singing — and exalts the listener.
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