English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "verhef" is om iemand of iets in rang, mag of eer groot te maak; om te verhef in status, waardigheid of belangrikheid; om te loof of te prys.

Sentence Examples

  1. For all that, he fancied some sage, either a friend or an enemy, might, by the aid of magic, have given them to the press if a friend, in order to magnify and exalt them above the most famous ever achieved by any knight-errant if an enemy, to bring them to naught and degrade them below the meanest ever recorded of any low squire, though as he said to himself, the achievements of squires never were recorded.
  2. And though my nose be rather flat, And though my mouth be wide, My teeth like topazes exalt My beauty to the sky.
  3. It would be death to stay in the present place, and with all the circumstances to go backward would exalt too many others.