Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RIS-ING
RIS-ING, ppr.
- Getting up; ascending; mounting; springing; proceding from; advancing; swelling; increasing; appearing above the horizon; reviving from death, &c.
- Increasing in wealth, power or distinction; as, a rising state; a rising character.
- Growing, advancing to adult years, and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation.
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