Definition of Rising tide

1. Noun. The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide). "A tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune"

Exact synonyms: Flood, Flood Tide
Generic synonyms: Tide
Antonyms: Ebbtide

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rising Tide

rish
rishi
rishis
risibilities
risibility
risibles
risibly
rising
rising action
rising damp
rising prices
rising slope
rising star
rising tide (current term)
rising trot
rising up
risings
risk
risk-free
risk-taking
risk appetite
risk arbitrage
risk benefit
risk capital
risk equalisation
risk factor
risk factors

Literary usage of Rising tide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"rising tide; novel. See Deland, Margaret Ritchie, Robert Welles Fem-in-in-ist of Jumbo Mills, badies' HJ 33: 15 N '16 Graduate school of war. ..."

2. The Birth of the Russian Democracy by Arkady Joseph Sack (1918)
"CHAPTER IX The rising tide of Revolution TO teach this presumptuous people, this people who ... rising tide ..."

3. Guild Socialism: An Historical and Critical Analysis by Niles Carpenter (1922)
"These events may be discussed under four heads: (1) the rising tide of reform; (2) independent radical movements; (3) the new revolutionism; ..."

4. The Age of the Renascence: An Outline Sketch of the History of the Papacy by Paul Van Dyke (1897)
"NEW THEORIES OF THE SEAT OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE rising tide OF DEMOCRACY. HIS political change, by which during the thirteenth century the peoples became ..."

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