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upliftment en · NOUN

Etymology

From uplift + -ment.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Lifting up; elevation or promotion.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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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