What's the difference between parvenu and risen?

Parvenu


Definition:

  • (n.) An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I am something of a parvenu, but we should welcome the iconoclastic and the unconventional.
  • (2) "I am something of a parvenu, but we should welcome the iconoclastic and the unconventional.
  • (3) The parvenu Pirates party, whose platform is based on greater openness in government through technology, were celebrating their fourth successive entry into a regional parliament after polling 7.5%.
  • (4) We had more in common with a remote-places-of-the-Empire parvenue such as Doris Lessing: born in Iran in 1919, growing up on a bush farm in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); then, after two failed marriages, running away to England with scant prospects, which was where we colonials with scant prospects ran away to then.
  • (5) St Pancras was seen as vulgar, even by such critical eyes as Summerson's; here was a Victorian parvenu, a mongrel of a design in which Scott's faux-medieval spires failed to meet Barlow and Ordish's Victorian "hi-tech" train shed with any degree of architectural conviction.
  • (6) The stereotype that grew up around this athletic young parvenu was a lusty one; albeit this was a parvenu who – like the cousin he was to marry – was great-great-grandoffspring of Queen Victoria.

Risen


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Rise
  • () p. p. & a. from Rise.
  • (p. p. & a.) Obs. imp. pl. of Rise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recently, the use of pentamidine has risen because of its efficacy in managing patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and Pneumocystis carinii infection.
  • (2) Respectable Europeans may damn the nationalist parties that have risen up against mass immigration as “far right”.
  • (3) And the number has risen sharply since 1980, with nearly 1 billion people added to the ranks of the poor over the past 35 years.
  • (4) Increasing food inflation means families within this group have to pay a £280 cost of living "premium" as they spend a greater share of their budget on essentials (which have risen faster than other goods) compared with higher-income households.
  • (5) Primary cadaveric graft survival was 72 and 42% at 1 and 3 years respectively; although since 1985 1 year graft survival has risen to 90%.
  • (6) Global rates of depression have not risen to the same extent, even though more people are being diagnosed in some countries.
  • (7) IgA concentrations had risen to the normal range for age in 22.2% of children presenting with aIgAd and 77.6% presenting with pIgAd when restudied at a median interval of 3.2 and 3.0 years, respectively.
  • (8) During the last 3 years the number of prisoners in Finland, has risen, being for the moment 105 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest rates in Europe.
  • (9) But no sooner had Hull hopes risen than they were dented by Meyler.
  • (10) The judge has yet to see the camp, but said he would visit the site on Monday evening once the court had risen.
  • (11) By October 2018 this minimum will have risen to 8%, made up of at least 3% from the company, up to 4% from the employee, and 1% tax relief.
  • (12) But yesterday the Tories said the move was laughable as the number of quangos had risen dramatically since Labour came to power in 1997, despite a promise by Gordon Brown in opposition of a "bonfire of the quangos".
  • (13) In these countries, however, a question has risen as to priority and justification for developing neonatal intensive care.
  • (14) There has been little impact on interest rates, banks have not increased their lending and the yen has risen on the foreign exchanges - the opposite of what was planned - because investors fear that the Bank of Japan is fast running out of ammunition.
  • (15) The scene highlighted Dines's explosive charisma and the fact that, since the death of Andrea Dworkin, she has risen to that most difficult and interesting of public roles: the world's leading anti-pornography campaigner.
  • (16) Supporters of the 1981 budget say Howe raised taxes when he froze personal tax allowances at a time when they should have risen 15% to keep pace with inflation.
  • (17) The editor of the Spectator stalks the corridors reminding all and sundry that the national debt will have risen far faster and higher under Cameron than under Labour in 13 years.
  • (18) Seven years later, the number of British mosques identified with Wahhabism had risen to 110.
  • (19) The ONS said UK's debt pile had risen to £1.11tn or 70.7% of GDP.
  • (20) However, while the intestinal oxygen consumption increases along with the blood flow, when the blood flow to the whole splanchnic area has risen the oxygen consumption has not increased moreover it has decreased.

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