What is another word for insurrectionary?

Pronunciation: [ɪnsəɹˈɛkʃənəɹi] (IPA)

Insurrectionary is a word that is often used to describe acts of rebellion against a government or other authority. However, there are other words that can be used to convey similar meanings. Some synonyms for insurrectionary include rebellious, mutinous, seditious, and treasonous. Each of these words carries its own connotations and shades of meaning, but all share the idea of resistance against established power structures. Other words that could be used in place of insurrectionary include revolutionary, insurgent, and subversive, which suggest more active efforts to overthrow those in charge. Whatever word is chosen, it should capture the spirit of defiance and resistance at the heart of insurrectionary behavior.

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What are the hypernyms for Insurrectionary?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for insurrectionary?

Insurrectionary is a term used to describe a rebellion or an uprising against a government or an established authority. The antonyms for insurrectionary are words that describe behaviors or actions that support the status quo or obey authority. Examples of antonyms for insurrectionary are obedient, compliant, acquiescent, respectful, and loyal. These words suggest a willingness to uphold the law and follow social norms. They also portray a sense of conformity rather than rebellion. In contrast to insurrectionary, these antonyms imply a peaceful and cooperative approach towards achieving desired outcomes.

What are the antonyms for Insurrectionary?

Usage examples for Insurrectionary

And little did anyone surmise that he had just given a symphonic setting to Lingwood Evans's insurrectionary poem with its ghastly refrain: "I hear the grinding of the swords, and He shall come-" Thus did Paris unwittingly harbor the poet, philosopher, composer and pontiff of the new dispensation-Pavel Illowski.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
In '48 he was expelled from France at the demand of Russia, whose government set the price of 10,000 silver roubles on his head, went to Dresden and became a member of the insurrectionary government.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
Many of the boldest sunk beneath the fear of betrayal, and themselves, became evidence for the crown; and in five months, a county shaken with midnight meetings, and blazing with insurrectionary fires, became almost the most tranquil in its province.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)

Famous quotes with Insurrectionary

  • I crossed the tracks and sought out White prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically [...] Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the White man's law [...] and that I was defiling his women [...]
    Eldridge Cleaver
  • The intellectual origins of literary theory in Europe were, I think it is accurate to say, insurrectionary. The traditional university, the hegemony of determinism and positivism, the reification of ideological bourgeois “humanism,” the rigid barriers between academic specialties: it was powerful responses to all these that linked together such influential progenitors of today’s literary theorist as Saussure, Lukács, Bataille, Lévi-Strauss, Freud, Nietzsche, and Marx. Theory proposed itself as a synthesis overriding the petty fiefdoms within the world of intellectual production, and it was manifestly to be hoped as a result that all the domains of human activity could be seen, and lived, as a unity. ...
    Edward Said

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