Definition of "risings" [risings]

• Plural form of rising. (noun)

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• "The following years of Turkish misrule, and especially the young Turkish policy of treacherous force, which resulted in Albanian risings every year, may possibly have caused many"
• "But the Republican here who's described as a risings star in the Republican Party, Peter Roskam is in a fight for his life."
• "For the government failed to realize that the actual cause of the risings was the general impoverishment, and saw in them a nationalist movement, thus actually arousing a national consciousness, stronger than in the Ming epoch, among the middle and lower classes of the people, together with hatred of the Manchus."