Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rising up; uprising.
- noun The act of rising against civil authority or governmental restraint; specifically, the armed resistance of a number of persons to the power of the state; incipient or limited rebellion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun obsolete A rising in mass to oppose an enemy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An organized
opposition to anauthority ; amutiny ; arebellion
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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On December 18, he placed under sequestration the property of a number of citizens of Moulins, "because," as he cynically observed, "_the beginning of the insurrection leaves no doubt_ as to the part they took _in the insurrection_, and in the pillaging in the department of the Allier."
Napoleon the Little Victor Hugo 1843
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Trials of sundry Negroes charged with an attempt to raise an insurrection, with a report of the trials of four white persons on indictments for attempting to excite the slaves to insurrection_ (Charleston, 1822); T.D. Jervey, _Robert Y. Hayne and His Times_ (New Y.rk, 1909), pp. 130-136.]
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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The term insurrection cannot be properly applied to the foolish enterprises of the angel El-Mahdi in the Bohahire'h, or to the less important disturbances in the Charkyeh.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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The term insurrection cannot be properly applied to the foolish enterprises of the angel El-Mahdi in the Bohahire'h, or to the less important disturbances in the Charkyeh.
The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836
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The term insurrection cannot be properly applied to the foolish enterprises of the angel El-Mahdi in the Bohahire'h, or to the less important disturbances in the Charkyeh.
Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801
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The term insurrection cannot be properly applied to the foolish enterprises of the angel El-Mahdi in the Bohahire'h, or to the less important disturbances in the Charkyeh.
Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 03 Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801
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Syrian forces fired shots at hundreds of protesters who had gathered overnight in Homs city in defiance of warning by the authorities to halt what they called an insurrection.
Syria: Shooting interrupts latest anti-government protest in Homs 2011
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AMMAN Reuters - Syrian forces fired shots at hundreds of protesters who had gathered overnight in Homs city in defiance of warning by the authorities to halt what they called an insurrection, a rights campaigner said on Tuesday.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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AMMAN Reuters - Syrian forces fired shots at hundreds of protesters who had gathered overnight in Homs city in defiance of warning by the authorities to halt what they called an insurrection, a rights campaigner said on Tuesday.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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AMMAN Reuters - Syrian forces fired shots at hundreds of protesters who had gathered overnight in Homs city in defiance of warning by the authorities to halt what they called an insurrection, a rights campaigner said on Tuesday.
Reuters: Top News 2011
dailyword commented on the word insurrection
A Star Trek film was named this.
June 12, 2012
bilby commented on the word insurrection
Early candidate for word of the year :-/
January 14, 2021