单词 | rising up |
释义 | > as lemmasrising up b. Attainment of a position of higher social rank, greater wealth, or increased power or influence. Also in rising up. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > rise in prosperity, power, or rank risinga1393 uprising1430 climbing1487 makinga1500 rise1608 aggrandizement1738 uprise1810 society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > elevation or exaltation in rank > specifically to power, dignity, or wealth risinga1393 uprise1810 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 1085 After Leo Virgo the nexte Of Signes cleped is the sexte,..Sche is the welthe and the risinge, The lust, the joie and the likinge Unto Mercurie. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) v. l. 2412 Of which Ballas to telle the processe, First of his risyng & aftir of his fall: Antiochus, the stori berth witnesse. a1550 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Wemyss) lxvii. 1966 Pres nocht to put thame [sc. servants] to gret hycht, Na to na hie rysing of mycht. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 375 One that seemed to enuy his risinge and greatnesse. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 325 The most miserable state of Rome citie under Maximinus the Præfect, whose parentage and rising is described. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) i. i. 216 Yet to auoid deceit I meane to learne; For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising . View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 201 Know'st thou not that my rising is thy fall, And my promotion will be thy destruction? View more context for this quotation 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 497. ⁋1 Till the Order of Battel made way for his rising in the Troops. 1810 C. Lamb in A. Ainger Life (1882) 91 To give..some idea of the difference of rank and gradual rising I have made a little scale. 1863 Sat. Rev. 19 Sept. 383 There would be no rising in the world, no new blood, no fresh source of life and strength in society. 1903 R. H. Stoddard Recoll. i. 3 Eight strapping children..by his first wife, and three more by his second wife, prevented his rising in the world. 1942 W. S. Churchill End of Beginning (1943) 145 People very often fall by the very means which they have used and built their hopes upon for their rising-up! rising up a. The upward slope of a hill; an area of rising ground; a hill, a mound. Also in †rising up. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] link931 rise1240 motea1300 bentc1405 mote-hill1475 territory1477 height1487 rising1548 raising1572 linch1591 mount1591 swelling1630 up1637 vertex1641 advance1655 ascendant1655 eminency1662 ascent1663 eminence1670 swell1764 elevation1799 embreastment1799 upwith1819 lift1825 salita1910 turtle-back1913 upwarp1917 upslope1920 whaleback1928 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. xix. f. clvv We eftsones come to the rysyng vp of the hyll towardes the mounte of Sion. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Cliuus Mollis cliuus, an easie rysinge of the hyll. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. ii. 44 But mount you presently, and meete with me Vpon the rising of the Mountaine foote That leads toward Mantua. View more context for this quotation a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) 53 Richard Duke..built a..house upon the rising over the river. 1679 London Gaz. No. 1420/3 In the mean time my Lord General..drew up upon the Rising. 1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 31 May in Wks. (1955) VII. 290 Nothing more than gentle hills or risings. 1782 T. Pennant Journey Chester to London 100 The situation is delightful.., with small risings on almost every side. 1836 F. Sykes Scraps from Jrnl. 99 Houses here and there peeping forth from risings. 1893 Eng. Hist. Rev. 8 665 In the centre was a little rising called St. Mary's hill. 1988 W. Horwood Duncton Quest (1989) xlii. 809 Mayweed led them out..by a southward route, leaving the dark rising of Whern behind them. < as lemmas |
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