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REBELLION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
Synonyms:
insurrection; rebellion; revolt; rising; uprising
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rebellion" is a kind of...):
battle; conflict; struggle (an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rebellion"):
insurgence; insurgency (an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict)
intifada; intifadah (an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000)
mutiny (open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers))
Instance hyponyms:
Great Revolt; Peasant's Revolt (a widespread rebellion in 1381 against poll taxes and other inequities that oppressed the poorer people of England; suppressed by Richard II)
Indian Mutiny; Sepoy Mutiny (discontent with British administration in India led to numerous mutinies in 1857 and 1858; the revolt was put down after several battles and sieges (notably the siege at Lucknow))
Derivation:
rebel (take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance)
rebellious (discontented as toward authority)
rebellious (participating in organized resistance to a constituted government)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Refusal to accept some authority or code or convention
Example:
his body was in rebellion against fatigue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rebellion" is a kind of...):
resistance (group action in opposition to those in power)
Derivation:
rebel (break with established customs)
rebellious (discontented as toward authority)
rebellious (resisting control or authority)
Context examples:
Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
