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Definition of Subversive activity
1. Noun. The act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subversive Activity
Literary usage of Subversive activity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Military Dictionary (1987)
"... morale or discipline of Department of Defense military and civilian personnel.
subversive activity—(DOD) Anyone lending aid, comfort, and moral support ..."
2. El Salvador at War: An Oral History of Conflict from the 1979 Insurrection edited by Max G. Manwaring, Court Prisk (1995)
"That is to say that no spontaneous generation of a subversive activity really
exists. There must always be a country that is willing to provide support, ..."
3. Herbert Hoover and Famine Relief to Soviet Russia, 1921-1923 by Benjamin M. Weissman (1974)
"During 1921-22, the Cheka in Samara arrested many ARA employees for subversive
activity, but they were released on the insistence of the American supervisor ..."
4. The World War: How it Looks to the Nations Involved and what it Means to Us by Elbert Francis Baldwin (1914)
"... was pledged by its declaration of 1909. That it should proceed with the utmost
rigor against persons who might be guilty of subversive activity. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1907)
"... the representatives of that regime hospitably harbor these throne-destroyers,
and pay them regularly ten roubles a day for their subversive activity. ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"day for their subversive activity. The results are abundant. Daily, new recruits
flock to the revolutionary camp, fresh converts to anarchy or terrorism ..."
7. Practical Christian Socialism: A Conversational Exposition of the True by Adin Ballou (1854)
"But he says they are all liable to a subversive activity, that this produces all
the discords of human existence during the imperfect stages of the race, ..."
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