rebellion
/ɹɪˈbɛl.i.ən/ noun C1- Armed resistance to an established government or ruler. · The government is doing its best to stop rebellion in the country.
- Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebelling. · Having a tattoo was Mathilda's personal rebellion against her parents.
- An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government. · The army general led a successful rebellion and became president of the country.
Plural rebellions
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“Know then that in the time of the Great Rebellion (the history of which by the learned Lord Clarendon I most earnestly commend to your attention) this Manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name, nor can it be gainsaid that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man.
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