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Sedition

//səˈdɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Organized incitement of rebellion or civil disorder against authority or the state, usually by speech or writing. countable, uncountable

    "That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed."

  2. 2
    an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government wordnet
  3. 3
    Insurrection or rebellion. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Old French sedicion, from Latin sēditiō (“sedition, discord”), from sēd- (“apart”) (an alternative form of sē-) + itiō (“going”).

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