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Definition of Rise to power
1. Noun. The act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne). "Elizabeth's accession in 1558"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rise To Power
Literary usage of Rise to power
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"1720-2] The " Bubble"—Walpole's rise to power The period opens, perhaps a little
too characteristically, with the hideous scandals of the South Sea Bubble. ..."
2. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1891)
"... as being a likely path by which men might rise to power. And in this case, as
in that of Phalaris, the Local tale has a good local colouring. ..."
3. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1891)
"... as being a likely path by which men might rise to power. And in this case, as
in that of Phalaris, the Local colouring, tale has a good local colouring. ..."
4. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria by Gaston Maspero (1904)
"... rise to power : Massacre of the Mamluks : Invasion of the Morea : Battle of
Navarino : Struggle with the Porte : Abbas Pasha, Muhammed Said, ..."
5. A Political History of the State of New York by De Alva Stanwood Alexander (1906)
"CHAPTER XXII CLINTON'S rise to power 1815-1817 THERE was never a time, probably,
when the white man, conversant with the rivers and lakes of New York, ..."
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