sedition
pronunciation
How to pronounce sedition in British English:
UK [sɪˈdɪʃn]
How to pronounce sedition in American English:
US [sɪˈdɪʃən]
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- Noun:
- an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government
Word Origin
- sedition (n.)
- mid-14c., "rebellion, uprising, revolt, concerted attempt to overthrow civil authority; violent strife between factions, civil or religious disorder, riot; rebelliousness against authority," from Old French sedicion (14c., Modern French sédition) and directly from Latin seditionem (nominative seditio) "civil disorder, dissention, strife; rebellion, mutiny," literally "a going apart, separation," from se- "apart" (see secret) + itio "a going," from past participle of ire "to go" (see ion). Meaning "conduct or language inciting to rebellion against a lawful government" is from 1838. An Old English word for it was folcslite. Less serious than treason, as wanting an overt act, "But it is not essential to the offense of sedition that it threaten the very existence of the state or its authority in its entire extent" [Century Dictionary].
Antonym
Example
- 1. Hindu nationalists demanded she be tried for sedition .
- 2. In spinoza 's view intolerant laws lead ultimately to anger revenge and sedition .
- 3. But the regime and its myrmidons managed eventually to crush the sedition , in marked contrast to several neighbouring arab dictatorships that were skittled by the upheavals of 2011 .
- 4. Yet several rwandan military officers , and a few opposition leaders , have died mysterious deaths ; other senior figures have been jailed on charges of historical revisionism or sedition .
- 5. Protest leaders accused the government of " genocide " for killing indigenous demonstrators , while the government accused the protesters of brutality and ordered pizango 's arrest for sedition .