Upliftment

For instance, the most plausible stylistic progenitors of Yorick's rhapsodic upliftments of language are the astonishing outbursts of Theocles in 'The Moralists'.

We turn to the spirit because the material world has nothing to offer us; we declare spiritual upliftments to be the highest virtues.

Intermarriage, he apparently thought, would produce racial upliftment, biologically as much as spiritually and culturally, through generational enhancement.