upliftment

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English

Etymology

From 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.