Definition of "upraises" [upraises]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of upraise. (verb)

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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"
• ""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.""
• "(With that stoop of the soul which in bending upraises it too) 15"