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Definition of sedition:

  • (noun) an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government

Sentence Examples:

Fine sedition against government!

How weakly does sedition build!

Nevertheless, sedition raised its head.

Talking sedition I'll be bound.

It was very like sedition.

Native sedition was running high.

Have we not seen sedition laws?

The sedition law was strengthened.

I have had enough of sedition already.

"Do you mean to raise a sedition?"

How much sedition it has prevented!

"It'll probably be sedition," he replied.

No sedition or contention will take place.

It is more destructive than sedition itself.

My goodness nearly excited a sedition.

And most of it stinks of sedition.

The native press is full of sedition.

The very air is full of sedition.

"You've been talking sedition in the village!"

In the footprints of famine stalked sedition.

Never talk sedition in front of them.

What were the alien and sedition laws?

You sail pretty near sedition in this copy.

To print and publish this is sedition.

He doesn't sell himself to write sedition.

The natural result of poverty is sedition.

A legislature had passed the sedition law.

It would raise sedition and tumult at once.

It is a defense against sedition and socialism.

All that you have been saying is sedition.

The pair talked the most violent sedition.

Security and leisure are the parents of sedition.

No second earthquake or popular sedition saved him.

The authors of the sedition are struck dead.

It is opinion they utter now, not sedition.

Joseph Harrison were also found guilty of sedition.

Brothers, George Jeffries "began in the sedition line."

"Why does he sell himself to write sedition?"

Thereupon a first sedition arose among the women.

Does the sedition catch from man to man?

There has been too much preaching of sedition.

Has given a name to this memorable sedition.

He may be called a master of sedition indeed.

And for sedition there is always the cross.

The direst penalties attended the appearance of sedition.

By this course of action the sedition was accelerated.

Abide not in the state where sedition is rampant.

There was "sympathy with sedition" for you, gentlemen.

Absurd jealousy, outbreaks of discontent, and partial sedition!

These twenty-six months of consultations were one uninterrupted sedition.

Supposing that there was sedition mixed up in this!

"Sir," he said, "your tongue runs dangerously near sedition."

Garrison to that state to be tried for sedition.

Was it the people who had broken into sedition?

And would we advise an authoritative suppression of this sedition?

He thinks you are guilty of sedition among the natives.

Love of daring and dread of poverty lead to sedition.

"Free speech doesn't mean treason and sedition," Eddie began.

His mind is full of the New England sedition.

The alien and sedition laws furnished the particular occasion.

If we speak our own language, we're suspected of sedition.

None had the power to stir up mischief or sedition.

Let us inquire into those of ambition, commerce, and sedition.

He has been guilty of the worst form of sedition...

Timid counsels always are an encouragement to sedition and rebellion.

On a previous occasion they wanted to hang me for sedition.

In no place is there wanting a voluntary associate of sedition.

The whole city is in a state of sedition in consequence.

There was now sedition in religion as well as in politics.

Cook, and thus travel about the hills spreading sedition.

We can make no distinction among those who sow sedition.

They are a turbulent people, and always stirring up sedition.

Sedition into insurrection grows Full easily, and this sedition seems.

He joined in the determination to put down sedition by law.

Antecedent cases of successful sedition are quoted to justify subsequent failures.

At that time sedition was supposed to be spreading among them.

These men seem to have had an irresistible propensity to sedition.

At Quebec there was an open manifestation of sedition on the parade.

You appear before your pastor charged with turmoil, sedition, and murder.

Prosecutions for sedition in 1793 were soon followed by military repression.

Prosecutions for sedition did not reach the seat of the disease.

We are here only as private men; we do not preach sedition.

Apes, who is charged with being the leader of the "sedition."

I'm sure all this talk about sedition and unrest means nothing.

For passions are spiritual rebels, and raise sedition against the understanding.

Seeing his opportunity, he showed the signs of revolt and sedition.

He was striving to bring about not sedition but fellowship and peace.

Be not a cause of grief, much less of strife and sedition.

He has so far done little but spread sedition over the country.

The reciprocity cannot be; I have to fear neither sedition nor faction.

A city is legally put in a state of siege during a sedition.

On various occasions he had been known to be in Montreal planting sedition.

Tumults shook the city once more, and sedition secretly gathered head.

Consider the sedition that must spring from such an abandoned state.

Therefore, sedition and warfare, bloodshed and strife have been continuous among them.

The book resulted in sending the author to the Tower for sedition.

For the time sedition was silent, but the people were losing hope.

Justinian's support of the blues led to a serious sedition in the capital.

He would put down sedition with an iron hand, he swore to himself.

"You do nothing," said Sir John, "but stir up the people to sedition."