单词 | easter rising |
释义 | Easter Risingn. 1. Christian Church. Christ's resurrection from the dead.In quot. 1871 in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > resurrection or revival > [noun] > of Christ resurrectionc1350 Easter Rising1871 1871 H. Bower Hymns Christian Life 59 No clouds obscure her heaven to-day, It is her Easter rising. a1879 F. E. Lawrence Serm. on Christian Year (1881) xix. 187 The purity of angelic nature..caught the first joy of the Easter rising. 1902 M. S. Rawson Tales of Rye Town xi. 244 What was that about the ‘spirits in prison’, and Christ's three days' sojourn in hell ere the Easter Rising? 2001 A. E. Lewis Between Cross & Resurrection (2003) iii. 89 Our pretty pictures of earth reviving annually from the dark of winter into the green of spring..might have sufficed to illustrate the Easter rising had the death of Christ been at worst a hibernating interval. 2. The rebellion by Irish Republicans against British rule which began in Dublin on Easter Monday (24 April) 1916. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [noun] > an insurrection > specific Jacquerie1523 powder treason1607 powder plot1611 the Fifteena1797 Gunpowder Plot1796 whisky insurrection1824 the Forty-five1832 whisky rebellion1863 Easter Rising1916 intifada1985 1916 N.Y. Times Mag. 28 May 2/4 If ever there was a rebellion in which the leaders led and the rank and file were kept in ignorance, the Easter rising in Ireland was that rebellion. 1936 ‘N. Blake’ Thou Shell of Death xiii. 231 Master Dermot was killed in France, the year of the Easter Rising. 2002 J. T. Broom in T. M. Huber Compound Warfare 143 The Easter Rising was timed to coincide with a bank holiday (Easter Monday) and the arrival of Casement's German arms shipment. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1871 |
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