upliftment

English

Etymology

uplift + -ment

Noun

upliftment (countable and uncountable, plural upliftments)

  1. 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.
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