"upliftment" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1982, Mark Loveridge, Laurence Sterne and the argument about design:",
          "text": "For instance, the most plausible stylistic progenitors of Yorick's rhapsodic upliftments of language are the astonishing outbursts of Theocles in 'The Moralists'.",
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          "text": "We turn to the spirit because the material world has nothing to offer us; we declare spiritual upliftments to be the highest virtues.",
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          "ref": "2002, David Theo Goldberg, The racial state:",
          "text": "Intermarriage, he apparently thought, would produce racial upliftment, biologically as much as spiritually and culturally, through generational enhancement.",
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        "Lifting up; elevation or promotion."
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