"risings" in the noun sense
1. rise, rising, ascent, ascension
a movement upward
"they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
2. rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising
organized opposition to authority a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
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