upbuilding
Speech parts
1. upbuilding - Noun
2. upbuilding - Verb
Meaning
upbuilding
present participle of upbuild
upbuilding (plural upbuildings)
The process of building something up; gradual development or accumulation.
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Examples
Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, Søren Kierkegaard 1843–1844, 1990 by Howard V. Hong, Princeton University Press, p. 5 On 16 October 1843, Kierkegaard published three more books about love and faith and several more discourses.
David F. Swenson first translated the works in the 1940s and titled them the Edifying Discourses; however, in 1990, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong translated the works again but called them the Upbuilding Discourses.
Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, p. 59-60 God's love is imparted indirectly just as our own sometimes is.
Soren Kierkegaard, 1847 Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, Hong p. 246 The one who loves sees the sin he forgives, but he believes that forgiveness takes it away.
He wrote many Upbuilding Discourses under his own name and dedicated them to the "single individual" who might want to discover the meaning of his works.
Søren Kierkegaard, Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, Hong p. 330 Before the tenth issue of his periodical The Moment could be published, Kierkegaard collapsed on the street.