elevated
/ˈɛl.əˌveɪ.dɪd/ adjective C1- Raised, usually above ground level.
- Increased, particularly above a normal level. · The patient presented with elevated blood pressure.
- Of a higher intellectual or moral quality. · the elevated language of poetry
- Of a higher rank or status: noble, dignified.
- Running with administrator rights. · Install all the required tools from an elevated console.
- Of a higher register or style.
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He was a simple-looking lawyer’s clerk, elevated to the extraordinary dignity of a provincial scrivener.
“I have enemies?” replied Dantès; “my position is not sufficiently elevated for that.
You are about to become captain at nineteen—an elevated post; you are about to marry a pretty girl, who loves you; and these two pieces of good fortune may have excited the envy of someone.”
I have more than once observed to Lady Catherine, that her charming daughter seemed born to be a duchess; and that the most elevated rank, instead of giving her consequence, would be adorned by her.
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