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

n. An act or a show of defiance toward an authority or established convention.

n. Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.

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

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

n. 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.

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

n. 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.

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

n. 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.

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

n. refusal to accept some authority or code or convention

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

"The term rebellion can never be properly applied to the conduct of a State, acting (through a convention) in its sovereign capacity."

resistance   

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

revolt    insurrection    contumacy    sedition    resistance    mutiny    insurgence    disobedience   

Trevelyan   

revolt    insurrection    revolution    hostility    discontent    violence    jealousy    conflict    outrage    conspiracy