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uplifter

[ uhp-lif-ter ]

/ ʌpˈlɪf tər /

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noun

a person or thing that uplifts.

a person engaged in or devoted to social or moral uplift.

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Origin of uplifter

First recorded in 1575–85; uplift + -er¹

Words nearby uplifter

upland cotton, upland plover, upland sandpiper, uplift, uplifted, uplifter, uplifting, uplight, uplighter, uplink, upload

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How to use uplifter in a sentence

The uplifter saw the men between heats drinking beer out of tin pails.
The Iron Puddler|James J. Davis
Moderately used, and not worked to death, as Wordsworth employed it, the sonnet is a great uplifter of poesy.
Sonnets and Canzonets|A. Bronson Alcott
She was the delight of the eye and of the ear, the soother of groans, the refuge of distress, the uplifter of the heart.
Tales of the Five Towns|Arnold Bennett
But just because he is the prophet, the uplifter, the proclaimer, Tolstoy is no longer the merely Russian writer.
Lectures on Russian Literature|Ivan Panin

She no longer knew herself, she, the uplifter, a crouching suppliant.
Paths of Judgement|Anne Douglas Sedgwick