Crossword-Solution: ELEVATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Elevation | n. | The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character. |
| Elevation | n. | Condition of being elevated; height; exaltation. |
| Elevation | n. | That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill. |
| Elevation | n. | The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star. |
| Elevation | n. | The angle which the style makes with the substylar line. |
| Elevation | n. | The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o/ sight; -- distinguished from direction. |
| Elevation | n. | A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the orthography. |
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Sentences with ELEVATION (5)
Oak lowered the lambs from their unnatural elevation, wrapped them in hay, and placed them round the fire.
Then I shifted my position to a little knoll that gave me the advantage of a yard or more of elevation and when I looked for him presently he was walking towards Woking.
Those days of innocence are gone forever; society's adaptation to the advent of the microcomputer after 1980 included the elevation of the hacker as a new kind of folk hero, and the result is that some people semi-consciously set out to *be hackers* and borrow hackish prestige by fitting the popular image of hackers.
After a noisy moment under the cold shower, she stepped out on the rug flushed and glowing, threw her arms above her head, and rose on her toes, keeping the elevation as long as she could.
How should sectional strife be healed? What should be the status of the ex-slave? Who should determine that status? Reconstruction and Its Failure At the close of the war more attention was given to the reconstruction of Southern institutions than to the elevation of the ex-slave.
Quotes with ELEVATION (3)
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.
The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposi…
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Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1970–2018).