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upliftment (countable かつ uncountable; 複数形 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.