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rebellion
  1. (uncountable) Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
  2. (countable) Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebelling.
  3. (countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The Easter of 1916 saw a small group of Republicans in Dublin stage an armed rebellion against continued British rule.”
      “Even the engagement was an act of fierce rebellion and shunning of anachronistic traditions.”
      “This policy reflected the goals of Degoutte to avoid fomenting a complete rebellion by workers.”
rebeldom
  1. The realm or sphere of rebels; rebels collectively.
  2. The conduct of rebels; rebellion.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Enclosed I send you a notice from one of the leading and representative papers of rebeldom.”
      “Of course I held my tongue, and gave no one reason to suppose that I had ever been in rebeldom.”
      “A short time after this, all the party came back, and I received full details of their trip to the center of rebeldom.”
rebel
  1. A person who resists an established authority, often violently.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Heavily armed security forces then stormed the place and caught the rebel by surprise.”
      “Hetfield, ever the rebel, resists the process until he goes into rehab for six months and gets with the Program.”
rebelliousness
  1. The state of being rebellious.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “No doubt Mrs. Larkin has displayed a certain stubbornness, rebelliousness even, in defying the enforcement notice.”
      “Far below the layers of undirected but intense anger and randomized rebelliousness, Pennywillow did have a spark of romance in her soul.”
      “Presley shocked polite society in the early 50s but came to symbolise the rebelliousness of rock and roll.”
rebeless
  1. (rare, historical) A female rebel.
rebeller
  1. (rare) One who rebels; a rebel.
rebellions
  1. plural of rebellion
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Despite a record-breaking series of rebellions in the last Parliament, they never inflicted a single significant defeat.”
      “There has been an enormous rise in workers' strikes, peasant rebellions and urban riots.”
      “He disposed of his rival claimants, and quelled various rebellions that the succession crisis had spawned.”
rebellers
  1. plural of rebeller
rebels
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