Insurrection

Quick meaning: Insurrection is a noun meaning (uncountable) The action of part or all of a national population violently rising up against the government or other authority; (countable) an instance of this; a revolt, an uprising; specifically, one that is at an initial stage or limited in nature.

Meaning

(uncountable) The action of part or all of a national population violently rising up against the government or other authority; (countable) an instance of this; a revolt, an uprising; specifically, one that is at an initial stage or limited in nature.

Example Sentences

“They were insuring against the insurrection of cargo – I think that completely sums it up. How can cargo insurrect?” asks Hall.

He returned to Spain, and was now on his way to join and take command of an insurrection, whose success was to be the touchstone of their countrymen.

And therefore if God afterward gave, or permitted this inſurrection of Epiſcopacy, it is to be fear'd he did it in his wrath, as he gave the Iſraelites a King.

Our own experience has corroborated the leſſons taught by the examples of other nations; […] that ſeditions and inſurrections are unhappily maladies as inſeparable from the body politic, as tumours and eruptions from the natural body; […]

Word Forms

• insurrections

Synonyms for insurrection

Depending on context, synonyms include insurgency, mutiny, rebellion, rising, revolt, uprising.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include uprising, rebellion, revolt, rising, intifada, insurgence.

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