UPLIFTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uplifting mean? 

• UPLIFTING (noun)
  The noun UPLIFTING has 1 sense:

1. the rise of something

  Familiarity information: UPLIFTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPLIFTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The rise of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

the uplifting of the clouds revealed the blue of a summer sky

Hypernyms ("uplifting" is a kind of...):

ascension; ascent; rise; rising (a movement upward)

Derivation:

uplift (lift up or elevate)

 Context examples 

If your birthday falls on September 27, plus or minus four days, you will feel the uplifting effect of this new moon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

They rode on their wheels much in the delightful fall weather, and out in the hills they read poetry aloud, now one and now the other, noble, uplifting poetry that turned one's thoughts to higher things.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)