upbuilding
English edit
Verb edit
upbuilding
- present participle and gerund of upbuild
Noun edit
upbuilding (plural upbuildings)
- The process of building something up; gradual development or accumulation.
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 160:
- It was beyond the local parson to remain passive while this spiritual cuckoo pulled to pieces this little nest of his victim's weary upbuilding.