upbuoyance

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upbuoyance (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The act of buoying up; uplifting.
    • c. 1799, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Visit of the Gods:
      Me rather, bright guests! with your wings of upbuoyance,
      Bear aloft to your homes, to your banquets of joyance