Crossword-Solution: INSURRECTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Insurrection | n. | A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state. |
| Insurrection | n. | A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “INSURRECTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Violent uprising | 1 answer |
| INCIPIENT rebellion | 1 answer |
| A violent uprising against authority | 1 answer |
| insurgence | 8 answers |
| insubordination | 8 answers |
| mutiny | 21 answers |
| Outbreak | 23 answers |
| anarchy | 46 answers |
| Defiance | 54 answers |
| Uprising | 58 answers |
| Tumult | 65 answers |
| Revolution | 71 answers |
| Rebellion | 72 answers |
| Opposer | 72 answers |
| Revolt | 72 answers |
| MOVING part | 74 answers |
| eruption | 77 answers |
| Bedlam | 77 answers |
| movement | 90 answers |
| Uproar | 91 answers |
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Sentences with INSURRECTION (5)
From what I know of the effect of these holidays upon the slave, I believe them to be among the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholder in keeping down the spirit of insurrection.
Unfortunately for the plotters, on the day of the insurrection a severe storm struck Virginia, wiping out roads and bridges.
She kept a-raging right along, running her insurrection all by herself, and everybody else mighty meek and quiet; and at last Uncle Silas, looking kind of foolish, fishes up that spoon out of his pocket.
Let them look round and select a spot whence they can best suppress insurrection, if any prove refractory within, and also defend themselves against enemies, who like wolves may come down on the fold from without; there let them encamp, and when they have encamped, let them sacrifice to the proper Gods and prepare their dwellings.
Judging from my own observation and experience, I believe these holidays to be among the most effective means, in the hands of slaveholders, of keeping down the spirit of insurrection among the slaves.
Quotes with INSURRECTION (3)
Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that austere at one end, in the deprivation it endorses, and fantastical in the other, since it awaits a universal utopia. Joy sneaks in anyway, abundance cascades forth uninvited... Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.
The task of all Christian scholarship — not just biblical studies — is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then …
In school we chanted, along with our teacher, I am the Captain of my fate, I am the Master of my soul, and meanwhile, within my own body, an anarchic insurrection had been launched by one of my privates- which I was helpless to put down!