Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of insurrection; favoring or engaged in insurrection: as, insurrectionary acts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious.
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- adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by,
insurrection .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or given to insurrection
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Examples
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She also led trading missions to south Munster and was involved in insurrectionary activities against the English.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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States homesteads on confiscated or forfeited estates in insurrectionary districts.
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The crowds -- counted in news tickers as "disappointing," on rightwing blogs as "insurrectionary" -- must be taken in the context of what may be the largest roundup operation in U.S. history.
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The crowds -- counted in news tickers as "disappointing," on rightwing blogs as "insurrectionary" -- must be taken in the context of what may be the largest roundup operation in U.S. history.
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Added to that, guns, machine-guns, rifles, and ammunition, were run over into the plebiscite area, and a mercenary "insurrectionary" army was raised, partly from the local Polish population and partly from Poland proper.
Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Stephen Graham 1929
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Whether it could be considered "insurrectionary" depended altogether on the pro-slavery or anti-slavery bias of the critic.
Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 John George Nicolay 1866
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This same policy was a few weeks later urged at Topeka, where a mass meeting of the free-State men was called to support and instruct another sitting of the "insurrectionary" free-State Legislature elected under the Topeka Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 John George Nicolay 1866
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Soul on Ice, which combines a visceral hatred for America with black liberation theology, admissions about "insurrectionary" rape, a spiritual odyssey, and a search for personal meaning in a racist environment.
Newsnet 14 Shera Crossan 2010
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As a basis for launching an 'insurrectionary' effort, it advocates the proliferation of communes.
Red Pepper Ben Trott 2010
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One hypothesis is that after years of being side-lined by movements around justice (global, social, economic, environmental, climate, or otherwise), a certain kind of insurrectionary politics returned to the center of the historical stage in Greece in 2008 and with the student revolts in 2009/2010 in the USA.
Anarchist news dot org - Comments anonn 2010
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