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Uprisal

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An uprising. archaic

    "My staying won't do you any good," said the old lady, whose purple sun-bonnet seemed to heave with the uprisal of her hair, "except, perhaps, to get you a better meal than the servants would have given you."

Etymology

From uprise + -al.

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