Crossword-Solution: REBELLION 9 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
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.

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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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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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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.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
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.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
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.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
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.
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1994
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.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008

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…
Jose Ferreira Borges de Castro
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.
Robert Sarah The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
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…
Chris Hedges
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Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1957–2013).