REBELLION

rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising

(noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

rebellion

(noun) refusal to accept some authority or code or convention; “each generation must have its own rebellion”; “his body was in rebellion against fatigue”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

rebellion (countable and uncountable, plural rebellions)

(uncountable) Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.

(countable) Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebelling.

(countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.

Antonyms

• (defiance of authority or control): obedience, submission

Anagrams

• elleborin

Source: Wiktionary

Re*bel"lion, n. Etym: [F. rébellion, L. rebellio. See Rebel, v. t. Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a renewed war.]

1. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistances to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection. No sooner is the standard of rebellion displayed than men of desperate principles resort to it. Ames.

2. Open resistances to, or defiance of, lawful authority. Commission of rebellion (Eng. Law), a process of contempt on the nonappearance of a defendant, -- non abolished. Wharton. Burrill.

Syn.

– Insurrection; sedition; revolt; mutiny; resistances; contumacy. See Insurrection.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition