upraise
Americanverb (used with object)
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to raise up; lift or elevate.
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to raise from a depressed or dejected humor; cheer.
verb
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literary to lift up; elevate
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archaic to praise; exalt
Other Word Forms
- upraiser noun
Etymology
Origin of upraise
First recorded in 1250–1300, upraise is from the Middle English word upreisen. See up-, raise
Example Sentences
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The floor and upraise of this recess is plastered with adobe, which in several places is smooth and well made.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter
Reader, your soul upraise to see, In yon fair cut designed by me, The pauper by the highwayside Vainly soliciting from pride.
From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
They must also upraise the flag of the oneness of the world of humanity in the island of Madagascar.
From Tablets of the Divine Plan by `Abdu'l-Bahá
Whereas, on certain boughs and sprays Now divers birds are heard to sing, And sundry flowers their heads upraise, Hail to the coming on of Spring!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
Also, ye of the bow and the buskin, praised be your peer, Now, henceforth and forever,—O latest to whom I upraise Hand and heart and voice!
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
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