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Another word for sedition

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Noun

  1. Organized opposition intended to change or overthrow existing authority

    See also:

    resist

  2. Willful violation of allegiance to one's country

    See also:

    trust

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Another word for sedition

Noun
  1. See also:

    treason

    treason

    revolution

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • It is a defence against sedition and socialism.

  • Many of the state Acts on sedition bear date of 1919, i.e.

  • In Constantinople itself sedition and profligacy were rampant, the emperors were the tools of faction and cared but little for the interests of their subjects, whose lot was one of hopeless misery and depravity.

  • 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.

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

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