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Definition of Rallying
1. Adjective. Rousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort. "A rallying cry"
2. Noun. The act of mobilizing for a common purpose. "The bell was a signal for the rallying of the whole neighborhood"
3. Noun. The feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort. "He feared the rallying of their troops for a counterattack"
Definition of Rallying
1. Verb. (present participle of rally) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rallying
1. the sport of driving in rallyes [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rallying
Literary usage of Rallying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... that so brave a man had fallen, And rallying stood around his corse array'd.
Yet not were therefore mindless of their might 730 The Achaians, ..."
2. The Lombard Communes: A History of the Republics of North Italy by William Francis Thomas Butler (1906)
"From this time forth, it is said, the name Waiblingen was used as the rallying
cry of the supporters of the Hohenstaufen, that of Welf became synonymous ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... as a rallying cry against the English. The song, in part, reads thus translated:
Mother, hail! Thou with sweet springs flowing, Thou fair fruits ..."
4. The American Rural School, Its Characteristics, Its Future and Its Problems by Harold Waldstein Foght (1910)
"The Rural School must again become the rallying Point of Country Interests.
— Meanwhile, something must be done for the great army of boys and girls ..."
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