Uprise vs Arise - What's the difference?
uprise | arise |
(archaic) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VI
(archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination
* Tennyson
To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
* 1998 , William B. Griffen, Apaches at War and Peace (page 92)
To come up from a lower to a higher position.
To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.
* Bible, Exodus i. 8
* Milton
* 1961 , J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês'' of Plato," ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association , vol. 92, p. 454,
As verbs the difference between uprise and arise
is that uprise is (archaic) to rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon while arise is .As a noun uprise
is the act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.uprise
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Verb
- 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.
- Uprose the mystic mountain range.
- They had decided to uprise rather than face punishment, and they wanted all the help they could get.
References
(Webster 1913)Anagrams
* *arise
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Alternative forms
* arize (obsolete)Verb
- to arise from a kneeling posture
- A cloud arose and covered the sun.
- He arose early in the morning.
- There arose up a new king which knew not Joseph.
- the doubts that in his heart arose
- Because Plato allowed them to co-exist, the meaning and connotations of the one overlap those of the other, and ambiguities arise .
