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Definition of Give rise
1. Verb. Cause to happen, occur or exist. "The new President must bring about a change in the health care system"
Generic synonyms: Create, Make
Specialized synonyms: Induce, Induct, Lead, Leave, Result
Derivative terms: Product
Lexicographical Neighbors of Give Rise
Literary usage of Give rise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... in other places, the jets thrown up and blown aside by the wind give rise to
long threads of glass which lie thickly together like mown grass, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"... employed too late ; but it nevertheless caused such a great improvement in
all symptoms as to give rise to the hope of a favourable termination. ..."
3. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1921)
"Factors Which May give rise to a Constant Absence of Hydrochloric Acid in the
Presence of Chronic Benign Ulcer. Observations on the Etiology and Mechanism ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"... S 272) could hardly fail to give rise to fraudulent attempts to obtain preference
where the property of a debtor is insufficient to satisfy all the ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"A civil marriage does not give rise to this impediment (SCC, 17 March, 1879),
nor does public decency beget a second impediment prejudicial to a former ..."
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