You have, as you confess, merited a severe punishment, but we can only punish in accordance with an unwritten law, that instructs the person punished, and elevates the human race in consequence.
In me you behold the spirit thatelevates man, and subdues the most violent of passions.
When the male sings, he elevates the elytra so as to form an acute angle with the body, and then rubs them against each other by a horizontal and very brisk motion[650].
It sometimes elevates its posterior legs into the air, so as to form a straight vertical line, at right angles with the upper surface of its body.
One of these (Salticus scenicus), when about to do this, elevates itself upon its legs, and lifting its head seems to survey the spot before it jumps.
Holy Ghost elevates the powers of the soul, and through the instrumentality of the so-called potentia obedientialis,(40) produces in it entitatively supernatural acts.
Grace elevatesthe faculties of the soul to the supernatural sphere, thereby enabling it to perform supernatural acts.
Considered under this aspect, actual grace is called gratia elevans, because it elevates man to the supernatural state.
It does this at the moment of reaching the beach, which it elevates by a vertical height equal to its own, and as instantly lets drop again to its former level.
This virtue, far from excluding legitimate amusement and pleasure, only regulates and elevates them by confining them to just limits.
Most appropriately indeed was the name piety given by our fathers in the faith to the sentiment which elevates the mind and heart to God.
He elevatesthe manner to the matter, and attains the perfect style.
It takes him down a bit, and (inversely) elevates his rival.
Moreover, nothing can rejoice our soul except that which improves our personality, and nothing can give us a spiritual joy except that which elevates the spiritual faculty.
Therefore the spirit of his religion, of the homage that he gives to God, is a fear that abases him, and not a veneration that elevates him in his own esteem.
He every where charms and pleases us by the Force of his own Genius; but seldom elevates and transports us where he does not fetch his Hints from Homer.
If an observer adroitly insinuates the point of a pin under the edge of the door, and elevates it a little, he immediately perceives a very strong resistance.
It elevates its subject "above" the servile condition.
It not only distinguishes kings and elevates them above all ordinary mortals, but it also makes their life a torture and an unbearable burden and forces them into a thraldom which is far worse than that of their subjects.
Dumbness sets the brute below the man: Silence elevates the man above the brute.
There is no other barrier that so elevates love as does death.
One stimulates the dramatist in him, by giving him an insatiable thirst for this world; the other elevates the poet, by lifting his thoughts to eternal beauty.
The element of discontent is all that elevates his amours above the "swinish trough," which Alfred Austin asserts them to be.
That exalts the soul to a royalty, and elevates it above mortality.
Truly there is something of this art runs here in a divine channel; as indeed all these rules of human wisdom attain their perfection, when they meet with a divine Spirit, that elevates them to a more transcendent use.
The love of God being the formal, the special motive of love to our brethren, it elevates the nature of it, and makes it divine love.
And truly, this is the great excellency of true religion above all those things you are busied about, that it elevates the spirit of a man to God; that it will never rest till it have carried it above to the Fountain-spirit.
Yea, Lord Michael, make no doubt He will find it out: (Dormi, dormi tu!
In any case he is not a revolutionary, and yet there is something restful and confident in his work, which elevates him to the rank of the most independent characters.
In order to end his doubts, Descartes elevates radical doubt to the position of a principle and of a starting point for all understanding.
It elevatesthe mind to the first place and relegates blood and flesh to the last.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elevates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
