uplifter

[ uhp-lif-ter ]

noun

1. a person or thing that uplifts.
2. a person engaged in or devoted to social or moral uplift.

Word History and Origins

Origin of uplifter¹

First recorded in 1575–85; uplift + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The uplifter saw the men between heats drinking beer out of tin pails.

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Moderately used, and not worked to death, as Wordsworth employed it, the sonnet is a great uplifter of poesy.

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She was the delight of the eye and of the ear, the soother of groans, the refuge of distress, the uplifter of the heart.

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But just because he is the prophet, the uplifter, the proclaimer, Tolstoy is no longer the merely Russian writer.

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She no longer knew herself, she, the uplifter, a crouching suppliant.

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