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单词 insurrection
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insurrectionn.

/ɪnsəˈrɛkʃən/
Forms: Also Middle English -rexyon, Middle English–1500s -rec(c)ion, -yon, 1500s -rexsion.
Etymology: < French insurrection, < rare Latin insurrectiōn-em , noun of action < insurgĕre : see insurge v.
1.
a. The action of rising in arms or open resistance against established authority or governmental restraint; with plural, an instance of this, an armed rising, a revolt; an incipient or limited rebellion.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [noun]
arising1340
rebeltyc1384
rebellion1409
rebela1425
insurrection1459
commotion1471
mutationa1513
revolting1539
mutine1560
head1597
sollevation1605
sublevation1612
liftinga1662
insurgence1863
society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [noun] > an insurrection
uparisingc1325
rebelliona1382
risingc1390
risec1400
surrectionc1418
rebela1425
upsetc1425
insurrection1459
mutinewe?c1550
revolt1553
tumult1560
emotion1562
sedition1585
uprising1587
innovation1601
esmeute1652
turgency1660
émeute1782
outbreak1826
uprisal1871
upsurge1930
1459 Rolls of Parl. V. 346/2 He [Jack Cade]..wrote letters to many Citees..to have made a comon insurrection.
1461 J. Berney in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 241 Yll dysposyd persones, defame..me..how that I intend to make jnsurrexcyones contrari vnto the lawe.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezra iv. 19 This cite of olde hath made insurreccion agaynst kynges.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxviij Other dyd secretely moue and sollicite the people to rise and make an insurrecion.
1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Eng. (new ed.) v. xviij. 98/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The remnant of the Britains therefore withdrew..into Cornwall, and into Wales, out of which countries they oftentimes brake out, and made insurrections [1577 reyses] vpon the Saxons.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 277 The Moors made an Insurrection, and made one Osman their first Dey.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. ix. 207 The people broke out in instant insurrection, declared their determination to renounce their allegiance.
1858 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) II. viii. 593 Insurrections are generally wrong; revolutions are always right.
b. figurative.
ΚΠ
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 21 If God afterward gave, or permitted this insurrection of Episcopacy, it is to be fear'd he did it in his wrath.
1780 H. Blair Serm. II. ii. 35 He [who hath no rule over his spirit] lies open to every insurrection of ill-humour.
1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy & Other Addr. 15 It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.
2. The action of rising up; upheaval. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > upheaval
insurrection1864
1864 J. Ruskin 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.
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