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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
upraise .
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Examples
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Yet God seems to respect persons, since of two men circumstanced alike He sometimes upraises one by grace, and leaves the other in sin, according to
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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"It must be observed," says he, "that by the wonderful moderation of our Ruler, we are often allowed to be rent by detractions but are uplifted by immoderate praise, so that whom the voice of the flatterer upraises, the tongue of the detractor may humble."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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(With that stoop of the soul which in bending upraises it too) 15
From Saul 1917
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(With that stoop of the soul which in bending upraises it too)
Robert Browning: How to Know Him William Lyon Phelps 1904
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(With that stoop of the soul, which in bending upraises it too)
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887
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(With that stoop of the soul which in bending upraises it too)
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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He perceived, agreeing or disagreeing, the motions of her brain, as he did with none other of women; and this it is which stamps character on her, divides her from them, upraises and enspheres.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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He perceived, agreeing or disagreeing, the motions of her brain, as he did with none other of women; and this it is which stamps character on her, divides her from them, upraises and enspheres.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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He perceived, agreeing or disagreeing, the motions of her brain, as he did with none other of women; and this it is which stamps character on her, divides her from them, upraises and enspheres.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868
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So, then, if admiration be the first fact, if the sense of it be the ultimate ground on which the after temple of morality, as a system, upraises itself, if we can be challenged here on our own ground, and fail to make it good, what we call the life of the soul becomes a dream of a feeble enthusiast, and we moralists a mark for the sceptic's finger to point at with scorn.
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856
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