RALLYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rallying mean? 

• RALLYING (noun)
  The noun RALLYING has 2 senses:

1. the act of mobilizing for a common purpose

2. the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort

  Familiarity information: RALLYING used as a noun is rare.

• RALLYING (adjective)
  The adjective RALLYING has 1 sense:

1. rousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort

  Familiarity information: RALLYING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RALLYING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of mobilizing for a common purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the bell was a signal for the rallying of the whole neighborhood

Hypernyms ("rallying" is a kind of...):

mobilisation; mobilization (act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

rally; rallying

Context example:

he feared the rallying of their troops for a counterattack

Hypernyms ("rallying" is a kind of...):

effort; exploit; feat (a notable achievement)

Derivation:

rally (call to arms; of military personnel)

• RALLYING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort

Context example:

a rallying cry

Similar:

encouraging (giving courage or confidence or hope)

 Context examples 

Miss Crawford, rallying her spirits, and recovering her complexion, replied only, “If I had known this before, I would have spoken of the cloth with more respect,” and turned the subject.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I trust your poor father is rallying.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment; but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder—how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take a vital interest.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Again and even nearer came the rallying Spaniards, and again with cry of fear and stooping bodies they swerved off to right and left, but the English still stood stolid and observant among their rocks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet it would have fared ill with them had not the archers from either side closed in upon the flanks of the attackers, and pressed them very slowly and foot by foot down the long slope, until they were on the plain once more, where their fellows were already rallying for a fresh assault.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)