noun

• (astrology) That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence.
  "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."
• (Mormonism) Apotheosis; becoming a god in the highest degree of glory after death.
  "Those who obtain exaltation will gain all power and thus themselves be omnipotent […]"
• (uncommon) The collective noun for larks.
  ""Oh, I, well, I too fell into error, for I frittered away my morning in stalking yonder exaltation of larks, thinking they were dunlin, and in doing so disturbed the only sord of mallards on the whole marsh.""
• (medicine, archaic) An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, observed as a symptom in various forms of insanity.