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Rebel   /rˈɛbəl/  /rɪbˈɛl/   Listen
noun
Rebel  n.  One who rebels.
Synonyms: Revolter; insurgent. Rebel, Insurgent. Insurgent marks an early, and rebel a more advanced, stage of opposition to government. The former rises up against his rulers, the latter makes war upon them.



verb
Rebel  v. i.  (past & past part. rebelled; pres. part. rebelling)  
1.
To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion. "The murmur and the churls' rebelling." "Ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord."
2.
To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt. "How could my hand rebel against my heart? How could your heart rebel against your reason?"



adjective
Rebel  adj.  Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops. "Whoso be rebel to my judgment." "Convict by flight, and rebel to all law."






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"Rebel" Quotes from Famous Books



... neighbour. But pass the bill and what happens? The Catholic employes would become unmanageable, would begin to kick over the traces, would want to dictate terms, would attempt to dominate the Protestant section, which would rebel, and trouble would ensue. They would not work together. It is impracticable to say: Employ one faith only and Home Rule means that Catholicism is to hold the sway. The Nationalist leaders foster this spirit, otherwise there would be no Home Rule. The workpeople would ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

... know how he stood. He didn't like the look of Moran and Wall—they were a deal too quiet for him, and he could read men's faces like a book. The other two prisoners were the German Dr. Schiller—a plucky old chap, who'd been a rebel and a conspirator and I don't know what all in his own country. He'd seen too much of that kind of thing to trouble himself over much about a trifle of this kind. The old woman was a family servant, who had been with them for years and years. She was a kind of ...
— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

... Had Prenk been a born leader of men, not only Mirdita but all the mountain tribes would have rallied to him. But alas! there was nothing of the leader in him. Thirty years of enforced idleness and exile had turned him from a rebel youth into a stout and amiable elderly gentleman, with a considerable sense of humour, but devoid of all capacity ...
— Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle • Durham M. Edith

... This rebel vizier had long entertained a mortal hatred toward me. When I was a boy I loved to shoot with a crossbow. Being one day upon the terrace of the palace, and a bird happening to come by, I shot but missed him, and the ball by misfortune hit the vizier, who ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments • Anonymous

... hurrying faster. Out from the mill-pond's purlieus gush, The streams of white-faced millers, And down their slippery alleys rush The lusty young Fort-Hillers. The rope-walk lends its 'prentice crew, The Tories seize the omen; "Ay, boys! you'll soon have work to do For England's rebel foemen, 'King Hancock,' Adams, and their gang, That fire the mob with treason,— When these we shoot, and those we hang, The town will come to reason." On—on to where the tea-ships ride! And now their ranks are forming,— ...
— Tea Leaves • Various


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