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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



... of the mass of the people against a few gallant but wicked aristocrats who follow the perfidious Charles. He will make no mention of the pay of the Ironsides. James II will be driven out by a popular uprising, in which the great Churchill will play an honourable and chivalric part. The loss of the American Colonies will be deplored, and will be ascribed to the folly of attempting to tax men of "Anglo-Saxon" blood, unless you grant them representation. The ...
— First and Last • H. Belloc
... for no answer the good man prayed heartily, and Dan listened as he never had before; for the lonely hour, the dying message, the sudden uprising of his better self, made it seem as if some kind angel had come to save and comfort him. After that night there was a change in Dan, though no one knew it but the chaplain; for to all the rest he was the same silent, stern, unsocial fellow as before, ...
— Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... injustice of power, this endless struggle to shake the grip of the master on the slave, he found an intoxication. Though many plans had come to nothing, and the prison had swallowed a thousand victims, the game was worth the danger and the failure. In the Fenian uprising the proud rulers had lost sleep and comfort, and the world had raised its languid eyes for a moment to study events in Ireland. Even the slave can stir the selfish to interest by a determined blow at his ...
— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith
... that the seeming mountains were, in fact, the convent of Santa Mercedes, with which ancient and bulky pile he was better familiar from different coigns of view. A pleasant note of singing in his ears reinforced his opinion. High, sweet, holy carolling, far and harmonious and uprising, as of sanctified nuns at their responses. At what hour did the Sisters sing? He tried to think—was it six, eight, twelve? Tansey leaned his back against the limestone wall and wondered. Strange things followed. The air was full of white, ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... Our adventurers witnessed the uprising of the birds with looks that betokened disappointment and displeasure; and Fritz was in danger of getting severely castigated. He merited chastisement; and would have received it on the instant—for ...
— The Cliff Climbers - A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" • Captain Mayne Reid


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