sedition
/sɪˈdɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.These varied from the trials and subsequent execution of radicals for treason, to trials for sedition and seditious libel....
- The security laws ban treason, sedition, subversion and the theft of state secrets.
- The civil law world also has known heresy, treason and sedition, though the first has disappeared with the rights of expression born of the enlightenment.
Synonyms
incitement (to riot/rebellion), agitation, rabble-rousing, fomentation (of discontent), troublemaking, provocation, inflaming;
rebellion, revolt, insurrection, rioting, mutiny, insurgence, insurgency, subversion, civil disorder, insubordination, disobedience, resistance, defiance
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense 'violent strife'): from Old French, or from Latin seditio(n-), from sed- 'apart' + itio(n-) 'going' (from the verb ire).
Rhymes
- commons
- common salt
- common seal
- common sense
- commonsensical
- Common Serjeant
- common soldier
- common stock
- common stocks
- common thread
- common time
- commonweal
- commonwealth
- Commonwealth Day
- Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Common Worship
- commotion
- commove
- comms
- communal
- communalise
- communalism
- communalist
- communalistic