uprise

upriseverb

• 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.
  • With the day, though not so early as the sun, uprose Miss Susan Nipper.
• 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; […]
• 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.

uprisenoun

• 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; […]