Crossword-Solution: REBELLION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rebellion | v. i. | The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection. |
| Rebellion | v. i. | Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “REBELLION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| refusal to accept some authority or code or convention | 1 answer |
| Subject of front page news. | 1 answer |
| Obstreperous feline? | 1 answer |
| Daniel Shays led one | 1 answer |
| Boxer or Shays' | 1 answer |
| insurgency | 2 answers |
| insurgence | 8 answers |
| ACTIONS TAKEN BY A GOVERNMENT TO DEFEAT INSURGENCY | 10 answers |
| A CONFLICT IN WHICH ONE FACTION TRIES TO WREST CONTROL FROM ANOTHER | 11 answers |
| mutiny | 21 answers |
| BOXER ___ | 30 answers |
| apostasy | 37 answers |
| gang war | 54 answers |
| Uprising | 58 answers |
| rising | 71 answers |
| Revolution | 71 answers |
| Revolt | 72 answers |
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Sentences with REBELLION (5)
Forthwith from every Squadron and each Band The Heads and Leaders thither hast where stood Their great Commander; Godlike shapes and forms Excelling human, Princely Dignities, And Powers that earst in Heaven sat on Thrones; Though of their Names in heav’nly Records now Be no memorial, blotted out and ras’d By thir Rebellion, from the Books of Life.
Perhaps it would be more accurately described as a determined rebellion against her prejudices, a revulsion from a lower instinct of uncharitableness, which would have withheld all sympathy from the dead woman, because in life she had preceded Bathsheba in the attentions of a man whom Bathsheba had by no means ceased from loving, though her love was sick to death just now with the gravity of a further misgiving.
While the Northern states strove to stabilize society in order to build a flourishing commerce, the Southern states tightened their control over their slaves fearing that insurrections from South America or ideas about freedom and equality from the American Revolution itself might inspire a serious slave rebellion.
One of the invaluable compensations of the late Rebellion is the highly instructive disclosure it made of the true source of danger to republican government.
Now these goings on must be a secret which the rulers only know, or there will be a further danger of our herd, as the guardians may be termed, breaking out into rebellion.
Quotes with REBELLION (3)
Haven’t you noticed that men struggle every day to correct the defects of my work? What is a plane or a diving suit but an emendation to my work? Even those who worship me spend their lives disagreeing with me and trying to improve on what I made. When they implore me for help with their misfortunes, deep down, are they not in fact censuring me, because what is a prayer but a rebellion that cannot be expressed?’ He smiled vaguely and added: ‘The only reason they don’t curse m…
The devil invites mankind to rebellion and disorder. With his litany of subterfuges, he sows discord and incites us to pour out our hatred upon each other. "Old Scratch" always makes noise and a lot of racket so as to prevent us from resting in God. The devil will not be able to reach us in the stronghold of silence. Let us guard against multiplying sins by satisfying our little egotistical or revolutionary passions.
Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more futile, the more useless, the more irrelevant and incomprehensible an act of rebellion is, the vaster and more potent hope becomes. Hope never makes sense. Hope is weak, unorganized and absurd. Hope, which is always nonviolent, exposes in its powerlessness, the lies, fraud and coer…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1957–2013).