uprise

present singular third person uprises · participle present uprising · past uprose · participle past uprisen

1. archaicTo rise; to get up.

   1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violent mist of lower ether.

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   With the day, though not so early as the sun, uprose Miss Susan Nipper.

   1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC

2. archaicTo have an upward direction or inclination.

   The voice grew faint: there came a further change; / Once more uprose the mystic mountain range: / Below were men and horses pierc'd with worms, / And slowly quickening into lower forms; […]

   1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Vision of Sin”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Chicago, Ill.: The Dominion Company, published 1897, →OCLC, stanza V, page 317

3. To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.

   They had decided to uprise rather than face punishment, and they wanted all the help they could get.

   1998, William B. Griffen, Apaches at War and Peace, page 92

plural uprises

1. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.

   I told her of my sufferings and my madness, And how, awakened from that dreamy mood By Liberty’s uprise, the strength of gladness Came to my spirit in my solitude; […]

   1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 283