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noun

Insurrection n.

A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state. "It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein."

A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Insurrection, Sedition, Revolt, Rebellion, Mutiny. Sedition is the raising of commotion in a state, as by conspiracy, without aiming at open violence against the laws. Insurrection is a rising of individuals to prevent the execution of law by force of arms. Revolt is a casting off the authority of a government, with a view to put it down by force, or to substitute one ruler for another. Rebellion is an extended insurrection and revolt. Mutiny is an insurrection on a small scale, as a mutiny of a regiment, or of a ship's crew. "I say again, In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition." "Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings." "He was greatly strengthened, and the enemy as much enfeebled, by daily revolts." "Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial, blotted out and razed By their rebellion from the books of life."

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... sixteen months before, was in a state of great tranquillity, brought about by the energy of the Bombay Government on the Muscat side, and Colonel Rigby's exertions on this side, in preventing an insurrection Sultan Majid's brothers had created with a ...

— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke

... master of all the Islands except Kauai and Niihau. With the exception of a short insurrection in Hawaii, there was peace during ...

— The Hawaiian Islands • The Department of Foreign Affairs

... and establish universal liberty.[21] Two priests accompanied the insurgents, not Wycliffe's followers, but the licentious counterfeits of them, who trod inevitably in their footsteps, and were as inevitably countenanced by their doctrines. The insurrection was attended with the bloodshed, destruction, and ferocity natural to such outbreaks. The Archbishop of Canterbury and many gentlemen were murdered; and a great part of London sacked and burnt. It would be absurd to attribute this disaster ...

— History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. • James Anthony Froude

... populace is in such a temper that if you are brought to trial I know not what may happen. As likely as not we shall have an insurrection, open revolt against the Pontifical authority, and red war in the streets. And this is not ...

— The Strolling Saint • Raphael Sabatini

... "The intelligence of the insurrection, magnified into a deliberate revolt of the whole nation, reached Antiochus. He marched without delay against Jerusalem, put to death in three days' time 40,000 of the inhabitants, and seized as many more to be sold as slaves. He entered ...

— With the British Army in The Holy Land • Henry Osmond Lock

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