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noun. Open, armed, and organized resistance to a constituted government.

noun. An instance of this.

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noun. Defiance toward an authority or established convention.

noun. An instance of this.

noun. War waged against a government by some part of its subjects; armed opposition to a government by a party of citizens, for the purpose of changing its composition, constitution, or laws; insurrectionary or revolutionary war.

noun. The act of rebelling or taking part in a rebellious movement; open or armed defiance to one's government; the action of a rebel.

noun. Hence Revolt against or defiance of authority in general; resistance to a higher power or to an obligatory mandate; open disobedience or insubordination; determination not to submit.

noun. Synonyms Sedition, Revolt. etc. See insurrection.

noun. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection.

noun. Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.

noun. a process of contempt issued on the nonappearance of a defendant, -- now abolished.

noun. Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.

noun. Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebeling.

noun. An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.

noun. refusal to accept some authority or code or convention

noun. organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

"The express language of it is: 'By virtue of the power in me vested as commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a _fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion_.'"

civil rebellion  commission of rebellion  proclamation of rebellion  shays's rebellion  the great rebellion  

resistance  

Trevelyan  

conflict  conspiracy  discontent  disturbance  hostility  

anarchism  anarcho-syndicalism  anarchy  antinomianism  chaos