rebellion
IPA: rɪbˈɛɫjʌn
noun
- (uncountable) Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
- (countable) Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebelling.
- (countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.
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Examples of "rebellion" in Sentences
- It even gets better, as Locke explains the term rebellion:
- States in seceding as they did, (through regular conventions,) makes the term rebellion inapplicable to their conduct.
- And as long as the rebellion is active, it will have to be checked, just as the Kikuyu revolt in Kenya had to be checked.
- The term rebellion can never be properly applied to the conduct of a State, acting (through a convention) in its sovereign capacity.
- When the battle was over, Samuel came to meet him, and rebuked him as if he had been a child for what he called rebellion and stubbornness.
- Doctors Tourniquet and Lancelot retired in disgust, menacing something like a general pestilence, in vengeance of what they termed rebellion against the neglect of the aphorisms of
- Doctors Tourniquet and Lancelot retired in disgust, menacing something like a general pestilence, in vengeance of what they termed rebellion against the neglect of the aphorisms of Hippocrates.
- I promise you never henceforth to offend your cause except in that mere woman's sympathy with what you call rebellion, for which women are not so much as banished by you -- or if they are, then banish me!
- The express language of it is: 'By virtue of the power in me vested as commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a _fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion_.'
- First the help of the Romans was asked and readily given; then in return a tribute was demanded and paid; then the Romans would meddle with the government, till their interference became intolerable, and there was a rising against it, which they called rebellion; then they sent an army, and ruined the nation for ever.
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