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Sedition

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Adjective, Noun
 : 
se=di=tion

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Sedition has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Seditionn. [OE. sedicioun, OF. sedition, F. sédition, fr. L. seditio, originally, a going aside; hence, an insurrectionary separation; pref. se-, sed-, aside + itio a going, fr. ire, itum, to go. Cf. Issue.].
  •  The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.  [1913 Webster]
    "In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
    The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition.
    "  [1913 Webster]
    "Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Dissension; division; schism.  [1913 Webster]
    "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, . . . emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies."  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Insurrection; tumult; uproar; riot; rebellion; revolt. See Insurrection.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Sedition, n.
1 conduct or speech inciting to rebellion or a breach of public order.
2 agitation against the authority of a State.

Derivative
seditious adj. seditiously adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF sedition or L seditio f. sed- = SE- + ire it- go

THESAURUS

Sedition

action, agitation, alienation, collaboration, coup, disaffection, estrangement, extremism, factiousness, fifth-column activity, fomentation, fraternization, high treason, instigation, insurgence, insurgency, insurgentism, insurrection, insurrectionism, lese majesty, misprision of treason, mutinousness, mutiny, petty treason, protest, putsch, quislingism, rabble-rousing, rebellion, rebelliousness, revolt, revolution, riotousness, seditiousness, stirring up, strike, subversiveness, traitorousness, treachery, treason, treasonableness, uprising, whipping up

ROGET THESAURUS

Sedition

Disobedience

N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.

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