Upraise vs Uprise - What's the difference?
upraise | uprise |
(archaic) To raise something up; to elevate.
*1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
*:So fell those two in spight of both their prydes, / But Scudamour himselfe did soone vprayse , / And mounting light his foe for lying long vpbrayes.
(archaic) To move something upright; to erect.
(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)
In archaic terms the difference between upraise and uprise
is that upraise is to move something upright; to erect while uprise is to have an upward direction or inclination.As a noun uprise is
the act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.upraise
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- 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.