upliftment

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.