upliftment
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upliftment (countable and uncountable, plural upliftments)
- Lifting up; elevation or promotion.
- 1982, Mark Loveridge, Laurence Sterne and the argument about design:
- For instance, the most plausible stylistic progenitors of Yorick's rhapsodic upliftments of language are the astonishing outbursts of Theocles in 'The Moralists'.
- 1993, Amit Goswami, Richard E Reed, Maggie Goswami, The self-aware universe: how consciousness creates the material world:
- We turn to the spirit because the material world has nothing to offer us; we declare spiritual upliftments to be the highest virtues.
- 2002, David Theo Goldberg, The racial state:
- Intermarriage, he apparently thought, would produce racial upliftment, biologically as much as spiritually and culturally, through generational enhancement.