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Rebellion

noun

Refusal to accept some authority or code or convention. "His body was in rebellion against fatigue"

Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another. Synonyms: insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising.

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"Rebellion" Quotes from Famous Books

... been taught to think that moderation in a case like this is a sort of treason,—and that all arguments for it are sufficiently answered by railing at rebels and rebellion, and by charging all the present or future miseries which we may suffer on the resistance of our brethren. But I would wish them, in this grave matter, and if peace is not wholly removed from their hearts, to consider seriously, ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... or art had been busy, there had appeared, both in Judea and Greece, some degree of rebellion against the empire of fact.. When Jesus said: "The kingdom of heaven is within you," he recognised that the human reason was the antagonist of all other known forces, and he declared war on the god of this world and ...

— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore

... in being able to write. He was of a mean appearance, and, like his father, pusillanimous to a degree. The meanness of his appearance disgusted, and his pusillanimity discouraged the Scotch when he made his appearance amongst them in the year 1715, some time after the standard of rebellion had been hoisted by Mar. He only stayed a short time in Scotland, and then, seized with panic, retreated to France, leaving his friends to shift for themselves as they best could. He died a pensioner of ...

— The Romany Rye • George Borrow

... standard of rebellion had been raised; here and there might be found a Dutchman as stiff-necked as the fate that he defied. His father and his father's father had lived here upon the Lesser river, and nothing short of a cataclysm of nature ...

— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen

... rebound was sufficient to set him on his feet unashamed. But during the fourth year after his coming of age, an unrest, a sickness of soul took possession of Jim and no wildness sufficed to lift this gloom. And it was in frantic rebellion against this depression that he entered upon his memorable visit to ...

— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton

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