upliftment

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noun

Lifting up; elevation or promotion.

UncommonScrabble 17

Meanings

nounupliftment (countable and uncountable, plural upliftments)

plural upliftments

  1. countableuncountableLifting up; elevation or promotion.

    We turn to the spirit because the material world has nothing to offer us; we declare spiritual upliftments to be the highest virtues.

    1993, Amit Goswami, Richard E Reed, Maggie Goswami, The self-aware universe: how consciousness creates the material world
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    For instance, the most plausible stylistic progenitors of Yorick's rhapsodic upliftments of language are the astonishing outbursts of Theocles in 'The Moralists'.

    1982, Mark Loveridge, Laurence Sterne and the argument about design

    Intermarriage, he apparently thought, would produce racial upliftment, biologically as much as spiritually and culturally, through generational enhancement.

    2002, David Theo Goldberg, The racial state

Origin

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