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/ˌɪnsərˈɛkʃən/ Listen

noun

Insurrection n.

A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state. "It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein."

A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Insurrection, Sedition, Revolt, Rebellion, Mutiny. Sedition is the raising of commotion in a state, as by conspiracy, without aiming at open violence against the laws. Insurrection is a rising of individuals to prevent the execution of law by force of arms. Revolt is a casting off the authority of a government, with a view to put it down by force, or to substitute one ruler for another. Rebellion is an extended insurrection and revolt. Mutiny is an insurrection on a small scale, as a mutiny of a regiment, or of a ship's crew. "I say again, In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition." "Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings." "He was greatly strengthened, and the enemy as much enfeebled, by daily revolts." "Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial, blotted out and razed By their rebellion from the books of life."

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"Insurrection" Quotes from Famous Books

... will allow me to explain their meetings from a less medical point of view? France is your enemy, France meditates your destruction, and the Marquis de la Chetardie is exciting the princess and Lestocq to an insurrection." ...

— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach

... to fly to arms, and when blood has been shed reconciliation is impossible. So weak is the principle of territorial loyalty, that whenever the Peninsula government finds it necessary to overrule some violence of its own soldiers, these find no difficulty in marching over to the insurrection, or raising a fresh rebellion of their own. So little progress has there been in Spain from the middle ages to to-day in true political science, that we see such butchers as Caballero and Valmaseda repeating to-day ...

— Castilian Days • John Hay

... The difference betwixt the French and British islands was very striking. The first appeared happy and content; the second were filled with murmurs and complaints. The late proceedings in England concerning slavery and the insurrection in Demerara had evidently caused the gloom. The abolition of slavery is a question full of benevolence and fine feelings, ...

— Wanderings In South America • Charles Waterton

... association of individuals. Individuals create civil society, and may uncreate it whenever they judge it advisable. Prior to the Southern Rebellion, nearly every American asserted with Lafayette, "the sacred right of insurrection" or revolution, and sympathized with insurrectionists, rebels, and revolutionists, wherever they made their appearance. Loyalty was held to be the correlative of royalty, treason was regarded as a virtue, and ...

— The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny • A. O. Brownson

... two or three perish beneath his initiating process. He sets the remainder—four of them—to breaking the caked soil; transporting upon their backs loads of loamy earth, scooped up in moist clefts among the mountains; keeps them on the roughest fare; presents his piece at the slightest hint of insurrection; and in all respects converts them into reptiles at his feet—plebeian ...

— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville

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