Definition of "uprise"

The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violent mist of lower ether.

1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI

With the day, though not so early as the sun, uprose Miss Susan Nipper.

1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848

The voice grew faint: there came a further change; / Once more uprose the mystic mountain range: / Below were men and horses pierc'd with worms, / And slowly quickening into lower forms; […]

1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Vision of Sin”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Chicago, Ill.: The Dominion Company, published 1897, stanza V, page 317

They had decided to uprise rather than face punishment, and they wanted all the help they could get.

1998, William B. Griffen, Apaches at War and Peace, page 92

I told her of my sufferings and my madness,And how, awakened from that dreamy moodBy Liberty’s uprise, the strength of gladnessCame to my spirit in my solitude; […]

1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, page 283