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- noun obsolete
uprising
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'uprest' is simply an overlooked misprint for 'uprist' -- not by any means a nonce-word, but a genuine English verbal substantive of regular formation, familiar to many from its employment by Chaucer.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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'uprest' is simply an overlooked misprint for 'uprist' -- not by any means a nonce-word, but a genuine English verbal substantive of regular formation, familiar to many from its employment by Chaucer.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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(Not a little has been written about 'uprest' ( "Revolt of Islam", 3 21 5), which has been described as a nonce-word deliberately coined by Shelley 'on no better warrant than the exigency of the rhyme.'
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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(Not a little has been written about 'uprest' ( "Revolt of Islam", 3 21 5), which has been described as a nonce-word deliberately coined by Shelley 'on no better warrant than the exigency of the rhyme.'
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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There can be little doubt that ‘uprest’ is simply an overlooked misprint for
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For nine years, the PNG government habeen fighting a secessionist conflict on the copper and gold rich island province of Bougainville which has caused the latest uprest.
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What about the protests against tyranny in Bahrain, not sectarian uprest, as the US will have the simple-minded think and the pathetic anti-Iranian propaganda.
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Yes, the whole arrangement was a violation of Washington protocol, but then the uprest in Iran-and the way news of that uprest is being spread over the Internet-is a violation of protocol as well, isn't it?
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Hills beauty Patridge visits the set of MADtv and immediately stirs up the kind of cast member uprest her MTV reality series is famous for.
Pop Crunch 2008
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‘uprest’ (“Revolt of Islam”, 3 21 5), which has been described as a nonce-word deliberately coined by Shelley ‘on no better warrant than the exigency of the rhyme.’
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