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sedition
[ si-dish-uhn ]
noun
- incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
Synonyms: mutiny, insurrection
- any action, especially in speech or writing, promoting such discontent or rebellion.
- Archaic. rebellious disorder.
sedition
/ sɪˈdɪʃən /
noun
- speech or behaviour directed against the peace of a state
- an offence that tends to undermine the authority of a state
- an incitement to public disorder
- archaic.revolt
sedition
- Acts that incite rebellion or civil disorder against an established government.
Derived Forms
- seˈditionary, nounadjective
Other Words From
- anti·se·dition adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of sedition1
Word History and Origins
Origin of sedition1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
So does his comment about treason, which plugs into the mentality of those accusing the President of sedition and disloyalty.
I refer to the Alien and Sedition Acts, signed into law by President John Adams in 1798.
Nor do members of Congress with close NRA ties who scare the populace and encourage sedition face any consequences.
Kamhawi is facing sedition charges from the nervous regime for, as he puts it, “saying what I am saying to you.”
Waited to hear what she would make, even at this early hearing, of the charge he faced: sedition.
There was little reason to hope that this, the third city in India, should not yield readily to sedition-mongers.
John Smith was later charged with sedition, acquitted, and finally restored to his rightful council position.
No one knows better than I that it is, at the present moment, honeycombed with sedition and anarchical impulses.
He ascribed the measures taken to repress sedition and defeat the French propaganda as attempts at tyranny.
The sedition cases were mostly heard before the lord-justice clerk Braxfield, who behaved with scandalous harshness and severity.
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