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What is the noun for riotings?

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riot
  1. Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
  2. The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
  3. Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
  4. A large variety of something
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  6. Examples:
    1. “In a panic, a few of the soldiers opened fire, triggering a riot.”
      “By this time, Woodstock had turned into a complete riot with fans destroying 12 trailers, many vendor tents, delay towers, ATMs, and more.”
      “Thousands of farmers began to riot against unfair debt and property laws.”
rioter
  1. One who riots; part of the unruly violent crowd causing a riot.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A Bradford rioter claimed he tried to stop youths wrecking cars only minutes after being filmed throwing stones himself.”
      “A 15-year-old front line rioter was locked up for a year yesterday after being filmed bombarding police with missiles.”
      “The 26-year-old was seen on video as a front-line rioter, hurling a petrol bomb and stones.”
riotise
  1. (archaic) Wild excess; revelry, riotousness. [from 16th c.]
riotousness
  1. The state or condition of being riotous.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The replacement of riotousness with seeming respectability would not have reduced the suggestiveness of these images for them.”
      “I am hoping for some general riotousness this weekend, since Mariella is in town.”
      “It is an uneasy spectacle, especially when 21st-century riotousness rubs up against 1960s folk-romanticism of such unequivocal beauty.”
riotry
  1. The act or practice of rioting.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I hope your electioneering riotry has not, nor will mix in these tumults.”
rioting
riotousnesses
riotings
rioters
  1. plural of rioter
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Mobile police units used water cannon and truncheons to counter the right-wing rioters, who threw stones and bottles.”
      “We are supposed to be regenerating an area which fell victim to violent rioters!”
      “The yeomanry arrive, Gerard is killed, Lord Marney stoned to death by rioters, Morley shot, and the castle burned down.”
riots
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