Mutineer
[mjuːtɪ'nɪə]
Definition
(noun.) someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers).
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Definition
(n.) One guilty of mutiny.
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Definition
n. one guilty of mutiny.—v.i. to mutiny.—n. and v.i. Mū′tine (Shak.).
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Examples
- The humbled mutineer smelt it, tasted it, and returned to his seat. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But then the first mate lunged forward upon his face, and at a cry of command from Black Michael the mutineers charged the remaining four. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They did not sit down to be besieged while the mutineers organized and gathered prestige; that would have lost them India for ever. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now in vessels which are in a state of mutiny and by sailors who are mutineers, how will the true pilot be regarded? Plato. The Republic.
- The captain of the Suviah died of his disease a few months later, and I believe before the mutineers were tried. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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