What is "uplifted"

Usage examples of "uplifted".

Jesus, accordingly, was crucified there, that the standards of martyrdom might be uplifted over what was formerly the place of the condemned.

He was uplifted above others in gifts of graces, so was He lowered beneath others by the ignominy of His sufferings.

Consequently, by the union of the body and soul, the body was uplifted to a higher condition of nature, but not to a higher personal state.

The sun of Pila, an F3 dwarf, is apparently too bright for this generation of uplifted Pring.

Jeffrey represented an abomination to him, a species that had been uplifted a mere hundred years before and yet dared to talk back.

The road ascended to a height of 11,000 feet, and from thence I looked my last at the lonely, uplifted prairie sea.

Or perhaps air uplifted by the great mountain was squeezed dry of its water by altitude.

Not only has the Negro race to be uplifted but the white race need to stand on a stronger platform than that of egotistical display of virtues which are not wholly theirs.

Not only must these upright Negro women take their role as counselors and teachers, but it is highly essential that they be WITH the element to be uplifted, yet, certainly NOT OF it.

Negro as a Christian, for civilization at numerous places has displaced ancestral heathenism, and the standard of the cross, uplifted on the banks of its great river, showing that the heralds of the cross have begun the glorious conquests of their glorious King.

Metz appreciated genius when he saw it, especially in an uplifted dolphin.

Carefully uplifted client races never suffer through the errors made by your pre-Contact human nations.

Through the wreathing vapors the steep, bare sides of the near mountains were pallidly visible, their icy pinnacles, like uplifted daggers, piercing with sharp glitter the density of the low-hanging haze, from which large drops of moisture began presently to ooze rather than fall.

Magnificat, and the uplifted steady harmony of the grand old anthem rose triumphantly above the noise of the storm.

Again and again this cry was uplifted, till far away on the extreme outskirts of the throng the joyous echo of it was repeated faintly yet distinctly .