Definition of Sedition

Se`di´tion
n.1.The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition.
- Shak.
Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition.
- Macaulay.
2.Dissension; division; schism.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, . . . emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies.
- Gal. v. 19, 20.


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action, agitation, alienation, collaboration, coup, disaffection, estrangement, extremism, factiousness, fifth-column activity, fomentation, fraternization, high treason, instigation, insurgence, insurgency, insurgentism, insurrection, insurrectionism, lese majesty, misprision of treason, mutinousness, mutiny, petty treason, protest, putsch, quislingism, rabble-rousing, rebellion, rebelliousness, revolt, revolution, riotousness, seditiousness, stirring up, strike, subversiveness, traitorousness, treachery, treason, treasonableness, uprising, whipping up

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