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Uprising   /əprˈaɪzɪŋ/  /ˈəprˌaɪzɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Uprising  n.  
1.
Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent. "The steep uprising of the hill."
2.
An insurrection; a popular revolt.


verb
Uprise  v. i.  (past uprose; past part. uprisen; pres. part. uprising)  
1.
To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. "Uprose the sun." "Uprose the virgin with the morning light."
2.
To have an upward direction or inclination. "Uprose the mystic mountain range."





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"Uprising" Quotes from Famous Books



... ere this had crept in unawares sporting strange disguises. Perhaps Illowski was a friend of the Vatican, of the Czar; perhaps a destructive, bomb-throwing Nihilist, for the indomitable revolutionists still waged war against the law. Might not this music be the signal for a dangerous uprising of ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... civil war. The British Army was said to be completely under the influence of Carsonism. The real catastrophe for the diplomacy of Berlin was not India's loyalty and the vigorous uprising of the young dominions, but the dying down ...
— The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 - What Americans Say to Europe • Various
... The presidential uprising of the women at the end of dinner saved her from the necessity of a reply. Mallory drew her chair aside and, as he handed her the cambric web of a handkerchief she had let fall, she found him regarding her with a gently humorous ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... they come down to the stream-side, which ran fair in pools and stickles amidst rocks and sandy banks. She said: "There behind the great grey rock is my bath, friend; and here is thine; and lo! the uprising of ...
— The Wood Beyond the World • William Morris
... to teachers, but because it was sweet to feel his own minuteness in the wave of grace which enveloped him. And he felt his own minuteness in that past, spoiled by imperfect beliefs, influenced by the uprising of the senses, in the central depression of his life, which had been one vast tissue of sensuality, of weakness, of contradictions, of lies. He felt his own minuteness in his life after his conversion, ...
— The Saint • Antonio Fogazzaro


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