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Definition of Insurrection
1. Noun. Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another.
Generic synonyms: Battle, Conflict, Struggle
Specialized synonyms: Insurgence, Insurgency, Intifada, Intifadah, Mutiny
Specialized synonyms: Great Revolt, Peasant's Revolt, Indian Mutiny, Sepoy Mutiny
Derivative terms: Insurrectional, Insurrectionary, Insurrectionist, Rebel, Rebellious, Rebellious, Revolt, Rise
Definition of Insurrection
1. 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.
Definition of Insurrection
1. Noun. An organized opposition to an authority; a mutiny; a rebellion ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insurrection
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insurrection
Literary usage of Insurrection
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"It is said that the spirit of insurrection which manifested itself so strongly
... After the insurrection at Cavité in 1872, the Spanish Masons separated ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"During the insurrection, which had thus extinguished the hopes of the populace,
... The conclusion of the social insurrection was a personal triumph for ..."
3. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"They are implicated in the insurrection of the Villeins in 1381. Conservative
reaction in consequence. Henry IV. supports the Prelates. ment against the ..."
4. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by Marion Mills Miller, United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"... an insurrection existed, in order to give to that insurrection in this country,
by whatever name called, a local and legal existence, recognized by us, ..."
5. The deeper wrong; or, Incidents in the life of a slave girl, written by by Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Brent] [Jacobs (1862)
"FEAR OF Insurrection. NOT far from this time Nat Turner's insurrection broke out;
and the news threw our town into great commotion. ..."
6. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1885)
"The insurrection now being over, twenty-five hundred troops under Morgan spent
the winter in the ... History of the Western Insurrection. HM Brackenridge. ..."
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