Rebellion
[rɪ'beljən] or [rɪ'bɛljən]
Definition
(noun.) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another.
(noun.) refusal to accept some authority or code or convention; 'each generation must have its own rebellion'; 'his body was in rebellion against fatigue'.
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Definition
(v. i.) The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection.
(v. i.) Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.
Editor: Megan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Insurrection, sedition, revolt.
Checked by Desmond
Examples
- England's course towards the United States during the rebellion exasperated the people of this country very much against the mother country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The war of the rebellion was no exception to this rule, and the story of the apple tree is one of those fictions based on a slight foundation of fact. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Not a little of the revolt was an exuberant rebellion for its own sake. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Soon the Grand Trunk Railroad was extended from Toronto to Port Huron, at the foot of Lake Huron, and thence to Detroit, at about the same time the War of the Rebellion broke out. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The hostility of England to the United States during our rebellion was not so much real as it was apparent. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As we have already seen, the Royal Society and Milton's Academies owed their origin to the Great Rebellion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The second brother died before the rebellion began; he was a Whig, and afterwards a Republican. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of Missouri, in 1861, Jackson and Reynolds, were both supporters of the rebellion and took refuge with the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I never came in contact with him in the war of the Rebellion, nor did he render any very conspicuous service in his high rank. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I, in my stiff- necked rebellion, almost cursed the dispensation: instead of bending to the decree, I defied it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It meant a rebellion against existing social institutions, customs, and ideals (See ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Except that Grandfather always called it the War of the Rebellion. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- White, a North Carolinian, and the father of Chilton White who represented the district in Congress for one term during the rebellion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- While it did not authorize rebellion it made no provision against it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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