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sedition
/sɪˈdɪʃən/
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What does sedition mean?
noun
- Organized incitement of rebellion or civil disorder against authority or the state, usually by speech or writing.
- Insurrection or rebellion.
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These, as we have seen, had been refractory in Jersey, and instead of being punished, were paid for their sedition.
They refused accordingly, and the Regent, remarking that they did nothing but fan the flame of sedition, exiled them to Blois.
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Where he calleth an Assembly, whereof men can give no just account, a Sedition, and such as they could not answer for.
Under his inspiration, the Virginia assembly adopted resolutions calling on the state to nullify within its limits the enforcement of the Sedition act.
This, we are told, was the first sedition amongst the Romans, since the abrogation of kingly government, that ended in the effusion of blood.