Sedition Synonyms

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Synonyms for Sedition

treason
Treason is the act of betraying your country or a betrayal of trust.
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insurrection
The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.
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coup
Among certain Native American peoples, a feat of bravery performed in battle, especially the touching of an enemy's body without causing injury.
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revolt
A rising up against the government; rebellion; insurrection
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lawlessness
Defiance of the law; outlawry
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rebellion
(Countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.
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dissension
Dissension is defined as a difference of opinion.
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insurgence
The action or an instance of rebellion; an insurrection.
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insubordination
The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
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protest
A written declaration by the master of a ship attesting to the fact that damages or losses were sustained from unavoidable natural causes, and rejecting any liability of the officers and crew
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riot
A violent public disturbance of the peace, by a number of persons (specified, in law, usually as three or more) assembled together
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insurgency
Rebellion; revolt; the state of being insurgent
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mutiny
Revolt against and, often, forcible resistance to constituted authority; esp., rebellion of soldiers or sailors against their officers
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strife
A conflict or quarrel:
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uprising
The action of rising up; specif., an outbreak against a government; revolt
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seditiousness
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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traitorousness
The state or quality of being traitorous.
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subversion
A subverting or being subverted; ruin; overthrow
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Words Related to Sedition

revolution
Apparent movement of the sun and stars around the earth
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trust
Reliance on something in the future; hope:
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blasphemy
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perjury
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heresy
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Sedition Sentence Examples

  • It is a defence against sedition and socialism.

  • The defenders were dispirited and torn by sedition and dissensions, and the emperor could rely on little more than 8000 fighting men, while the assailants, 200,000 strong, were animated by the wildest fanatical zeal.

  • If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot.

  • Before setting out, he quelled with the utmost cruelty a sedition of the Pharisees, slaying nearly 3000 of them.

  • By this compact, moreover, the chronically rebellious Jutish nobility lost the support they had hitherto always found in Schleswig-Holstein, and Margaret, free from all fear of domestic sedition, could now give her undivided attention to Sweden, where the mutinous nobles were already in arms against their unpopular king, Albert of Mecklenburg.

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