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MUTINY

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Irregular inflected form: mutinied   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("mutiny" is a kind of...):

insurrection; rebellion; revolt; rising; uprising (organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another)

Derivation:

mutineer (someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers))

mutinous (disposed to or in a state of mutiny)

mutiny (engage in a mutiny against an authority)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Engage in a mutiny against an authority

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "mutiny" is one way to...):

arise; rebel; rise; rise up (take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

mutineer (someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers))

mutiny (open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers))

Credits

 Context examples: 

Yet he would jog quietly on with his teachings, taking no heed to her mutiny, until suddenly she would be conquered by his patience, and break into self-revilings a hundred times stronger than her fault demanded.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the days that followed, as Dawson grew closer and closer, Buck still continued to interfere between Spitz and the culprits; but he did it craftily, when François was not around, With the covert mutiny of Buck, a general insubordination sprang up and increased.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder-cloud.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I have always faithfully observed the one, up to the very moment of bursting, sometimes with volcanic vehemence, into the other; and as neither present circumstances warranted, nor my present mood inclined me to mutiny, I observed careful obedience to St. John's directions; and in ten minutes I was treading the wild track of the glen, side by side with him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Certainly, since the mutiny began, not a man of them could ever have been sober.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Spare us the enumeration! Au reste, we all know them: danger of bad example to innocence of childhood; distractions and consequent neglect of duty on the part of the attached—mutual alliance and reliance; confidence thence resulting—insolence accompanying—mutiny and general blow-up.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The planks, which had not been swabbed since the mutiny, bore the print of many feet, and an empty bottle, broken by the neck, tumbled to and fro like a live thing in the scuppers.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It went to all our hearts, I think, to leave them in that wretched state; but we could not risk another mutiny; and to take them home for the gibbet would have been a cruel sort of kindness.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I'll get admitted there, and I'll stir up mutiny; and you, three-tailed bashaw as you are, sir, shall in a trice find yourself fettered amongst our hands: nor will I, for one, consent to cut your bonds till you have signed a charter, the most liberal that despot ever yet conferred.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)