Insurrection
[,ɪnsə'rekʃ(ə)n]
Definition
(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.
(n.) A rising in mass to oppose an enemy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Rebellion, revolt, sedition, mutiny.
Editor: Margaret
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rebellion, riot, rising, anarchy, tumult, mutiny, sedition, emeute,pronouncement, revolt
ANT:Law, peace, order, obedience, government, submission, subjection, servitude,bondage, subsidence, pacification, acquiescence
Checker: Sigmund
Definition
n. a rising up or against: open and active opposition to the execution of the law: a rebellion.—adjs. Insurrec′tional Insurrec′tionary.—n. Insurrec′tionist one who favours or takes part in an insurrection.
Checked by Blanchard
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
Edited by Hilda
Examples
- The murder of Drusus was the last drop in the popular cup; Italy blazed into a desperate insurrection. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The sect of the Anabaptists appeared in Wittenberg in 1521 under three prophets, and broke out into insurrection in 1525. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their military education began with a successful insurrection against the Kin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The grim-looking prison of the Bastille was stormed by the people of Paris, and the insurrection spread rapidly throughout France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Spanish legions rose in insurrection under an elderly general of seventy-three, Galba, whom they acclaimed emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This was the insurrection of the Greeks against the Turks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And insurrection could clothe itself in the same romantic habiliments as diplomacy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Irish Catholics had made a massacre of the Protestant English in Ireland, and now Cromwell suppressed the Irish insurrection with great vigour. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It dispersed after an insurrection at Prague had been suppressed by Austrian troops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That the wild outbursts of insurrection midway in the fifth decade failed and died away was not surprising, for the superincumbent deposits of tradition and convention were thick. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Smith of the Ulster insurrection, a shocking conjunction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The people had at that time the greatest affection for their new government, which they had just established by a general insurrection. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They will arrest him yet unless he assumes an expression of countenance that shall have less of carnage, insurrection and sedition in it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I saw she had felt insurrection, and was waking to empire. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The king's method of suppressing insurrections. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Bloody insurrections repeatedly broke out, always traceable ultimately to the pressure of taxation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were plots, there were insurrections; they lie flat and colourless now in the histories like dead flowers in an old book. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ultimately all these insurrections failed; the current system staggered, but kept its feet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They know that the responsibility for insurrections rests in the last analysis upon the unimaginative greed and endless stupidity of the dominant classes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Philip