Rebellion

Definition of Rebellion

Re`bel´lion   Pronunciation: rė`bĕl´yŭn
n.1.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.
No sooner is the standard of rebellion displayed than men of desperate principles resort to it.
- Ames.
2.Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.
Commission of rebellion
(Eng. Law) a process of contempt issued on the nonappearance of a defendant, - now abolished.
- Wharton.

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anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, chaos, civil disorder, confusion, contumacy, criminal syndicalism, defiance, disobedience, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disruption, emeute, general uprising, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, jacquerie, levee en masse, lynch law, misrule, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, mutiny, nihilism, ochlocracy, outbreak, peasant revolt, primal chaos, putsch, rebelliousness, resistance, revolution, riot, rising, syndicalism, tohubohu, turmoil, unruliness
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