uplifting

comparative more uplifting · superlative most uplifting

1. Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.

   Listening to whalesong can be very uplifting.

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   It would be uplifting to think that the ziggurat was the first expression of Near Eastern civilization, for then one could speak about humanity's fascination with the heavens, of the human quest for communion with the infinite.

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 159

plural upliftings

1. The act of something being lifted upward.

   Whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex.

   1851, Herman Melville, “Chapter 35, The Mast-Head”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (fiction), page 86

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   The borders of large subsiding areas sooner or later experiencing deep fissurings and extensive upliftings through the tension or horizontal force of the subsiding crust[…]

   1847, The American Journal of Science and Arts, →ISSN, page 91