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uplifted

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1. uplifted - Adjective

2. uplifted - Verb

3. uplifted - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

exalted emotionally especially with pride

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Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

But it is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it. Stefan Zweig

She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle - a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium. Kate Chopin

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces. Elizabeth Bowen

Where the bright seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow. John Milton

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