Anonymous ID: 1b439f March 4, 2025, 9:11 p.m. No.22705525   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5566 >>5638

What's the meaning of the phrase 'Raise Cain'?

 

To be ‘raising Cain’ is to be causing trouble or creating an uproar.

 

The transitive verb ‘to raise’ has been used since at least the 14th century to mean ‘to conjure up; to cause a spirit to appear by means of incantations’. Geoffrey Chaucer made use of that meaning in The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, circa 1395:

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/raising-cain.html