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risings

n. (plural of rising English)

Usage examples of "risings".

In each of the risings of 1854, 1866 and 1878, he had run the Turkish blockade in his Dardana countless times to land food and muni tions for the Christians in remote natural harbors.

It was here that the Christian women had taken refuge in all the risings, to escape the knives of the Turks.