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uplifter

[ uhp-lif-ter ]

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of uplifter1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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