单词 | insurrection |
释义 | insurrectionn. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1459 |
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