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comparative more uplifting, superlative most uplifting
Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness. examples
plural upliftings
The act of something being lifted upward. quotations examples
Whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex.
1851, Herman Melville, “Chapter 35, The Mast-Head”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (fiction), page 86
The borders of large subsiding areas sooner or later experiencing deep fissurings and extensive upliftings through the tension or horizontal force of the subsiding crust […]
1847, The American Journal of Science and Arts, page 91