sedition

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  1. noun Conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state.
  2. noun Insurrection; rebellion.

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  • At Jawa we call that treason, sedition, aiding the enemy in its propaganda effort. —  The Jawa Report
  • Police are also investigating Ahmad for possible sedition, which is punishable by three years in prison. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • When all pleas for liberty are esteemed sedition, and the laws, that give, and maintain them, so many insignificant pieces of formality. —  Corrente
  • You are aware of what constitutes the crime of sedition, are you not? —  Accuracy In Media
  • Interior ministry chief Rehman Malik has asked the protesters to stay away from Islamabad and warned the Sharif brothers that their calls for a revolution amounted to sedition, a crime that can be punished with life imprisonment. —  Daily News & Analysis
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English sedicioun, violent party strife, from Old French sedition, from Latin sēditiō, sēditiōn- : sēd-, sē-, apart; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + itiō, act of going (from itus, past participle of īre, to go; see ei- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Early modern English also sedicion; from Middle English sedicioun, from Old French sedition, sedicion, French sédition = Provencal sedicio = Spanish sedicion = Portuguese sedição = Italian sedizione, from Latin seditio (n -), dissension, civil discord, sedition, literally ‘a going apart,’ hence dissension, from sedire (not used), go apart, from sed -, apart, + ire, go: see iter, etc. Cf. ambition, redition, transition.
 

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