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insurrection|ɪnsəˈrɛkʃən|
Also 5 -rexyon, 5–6 -rec(c)ion, -yon, 6 -rexsion.
[a. F. insurrection, ad. rare L. insurrectiōn-em, n. of action f. insurgĕre: see insurge.]
1. The action of rising in arms or open resistance against established authority or governmental restraint; with pl., an instance of this, an armed rising, a revolt; an incipient or limited rebellion.
1459Rolls of Parlt. V. 346/2 He [Jack Cade]..wrote letters to many Citees..to have made a comon insurrection. 1461Paston Lett. No. 401 II. 27 Yll dysposed persones, defame..me..how that I intend to make insurexyones contrari unto the law. 1535Coverdale Ezra iv. 19 This cite of olde hath made insurreccion agaynst kynges. 1548Hall Chron., Rich. III 38 Other dyd secretely move and sollicite the people to rise and make an insurrecion. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. 98/2 The remnant of the Britains therefore withdrew..into Cornwall, and into Wales, out of which countries they oftentimes brake out, and made insurrections vpon the Saxons. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 277 The Moors made an Insurrection, and made one Osman their first Dey. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. iv. ix. (1864) II. 418 The people broke out in instant insurrection, declared their determination to renounce their allegiance. 1858Buckle Civiliz. (1873) II. viii. 593 Insurrections are generally wrong; revolutions are always right.
b. fig.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. i. vi, If God afterward gave, or permitted this insurrection of Episcopacy, it is to be fear'd he did it in his wrath. 1780Blair Serm. (ed. 3) II. ii. 35 He [who hath no rule over his spirit] lies open to every insurrection of ill-humour. 1887Lowell Democr. 15 It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.
2. The action of rising up; upheaval. rare.
1864Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) I. 264 Every winter, the whole glacier surface rises to replace the summer's waste, not with progressive wave..but with silent level insurrection, as of ocean tide, the gray sea-crystal passes by. |