insurrection

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Leaders of the insurrection were arrested, tried, and convicted of treason, but were pardoned by Washington.

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  1. noun The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.

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  • But the insurrection, as Mr Telfair very well remarked, which the leaders in this business are most afraid of, is not an insurrection of slaves, but an insurrection of conscience—an insurrection which they intend to find the means, if they can, to anticipate and prevent. —  The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
  • The ringleaders of the insurrection were arrested and tried by civil process, the disorders ceased, law reigned once more, and the “hateful tax” was duly paid and collected. —  George Washington, Vol. II
  • The great symbol of this new comprehensiveness in the insurrection was the Encyclopaedia. —  Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2)
  • The army was to support an insurrection, and the insurrection was to support the army. —  Caesar: A Sketch
  • No, the insurrection should be against the brainless version of capitalism that has made its home in the United States and, increasingly, in Western Europe, with the resulting economic disasters of which we are only just seeing the beginning. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
 

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rebellion ·  mutiny ·  uprising ·  revolution ·  conspiracy ·  invasion ·  anarchy ·  riot ·  disturbance ·  outbreak ·  discontent ·  sedition

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insurrection:   insurrections
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin īnsurrēctiō, īnsurrēctiōn-, from Latin īnsurrēctus, past participle of īnsurgere, to rise up; see insurgent.

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  1. = French insurrection = Spanish insurreccion = Portuguese insurreição = Italian insurrezione, from Late Latin insurrectio(n-) (in a gloss), a rising up, insurrection, from Latin insurgere, past participle insurrectus, rise up: see insurgent.
 

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/ɪnsəˈrɛkʃən/
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