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
- capital bonus
- capital budget
- capital budgeting
- capital city
- capital commitment
- capital consumption
- capital control
- capital cost
- capital deepening
- capital depreciation
- capital duty
- capitaled
- capital equipment
- capital expenditure
- capital flight
- capital flow
- capital formation
- capital funding
- capital gain
- capital gains tax
- capital gearing
- capital goods
- capital growth
- capitalhood
- capital improvement