uprisal

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noun

An uprising.

Scrabble 9

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nounuprisal (plural uprisals)

plural uprisals

  1. archaicAn uprising.

    My staying won't do you any good," said the old lady, whose purple sun-bonnet seemed to heave with the uprisal of her hair, "except, perhaps, to get you a better meal than the servants would have given you.

    1886, Frank Richard Stockton, The Late Mrs. Null
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    In that interval, the priests came to Acoma and held footing for fifty years, until the bloody uprisal of 1680 occurred, in which priest, soldier and settler were massacred or driven from the land, and every vestige of their occupation was extirpated.

    1903, James Cox, My Native Land

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