[UP- 6 b. Cf. UPLIFT v.] That uplifts or elevates. Chiefly fig.
1818. Shelley, Homer’s Hymn Sun, 20. The light vest … Glows in the stream of the uplifting wind.
1881. [see UPLOOKING].
1889. E. W. Benson, in Life (1899), II. 290. A friendship … of which every hour was uplifting.
1896. in Daily News, 24 Feb., 3/3. Today it [sc. the Salvation Army] is one of the greatest uplifting forces in the country.
