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insurrection
/ˌɪnsɚˈɛkʃən/
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What does insurrection mean?
noun
- (figuratively) The action of part or all of a national population violently rising up against the government or other authority; (countable) an instance of this; a revolt, an uprising; specifically, one that is at an initial stage or limited in nature.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɪnsɚˈɛkʃən/
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However, insurrection, riot, and points of difference between the former and the latter,—the bourgeois, properly speaking, knows nothing of such shades.
Degenerates of alcoholism and poverty, thieves, beggars, destitute ``casuals,'' indifferent workers without employment--these constitute the dangerous bulk of the armies of insurrection.
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The emotion which the news of the Bohemian insurrection excited at the imperial court, was much less lively than such intelligence deserved.
The people had at that time the greatest affection for their new government, which they had just established by a general insurrection.
On the discovery of the plan for the outbreak, Turner fled to the swamps, followed by those who had joined in the insurrection.