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sedition

/si-dish-uhn/US // sɪˈdɪʃ ən //UK // (sɪˈdɪʃən) //

叛乱,煽动叛乱,煽动,叛乱罪

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
    • : any action, especially in speech or writing, promoting such discontent or rebellion.
    • : Archaic. rebellious disorder.

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Examples

  • In the House, they voted for leaders who participated in sedition.

  • Other commentators have dubbed it a coup, or appended the legal label of sedition.

  • Ye, accused of sedition, is sent to work for an obscure government agency called the Red Coast Base and discovers a new method for transmitting interstellar messages.

  • While the local sedition law passed in 1918, San Diego didn’t warm to all wartime restrictions that year.

  • Somebody called the cops, and the 24-year-old was arrested on charges of sedition and thrown in jail.

  • So does his comment about treason, which plugs into the mentality of those accusing the President of sedition and disloyalty.

  • I refer to the Alien and Sedition Acts, signed into law by President John Adams in 1798.

  • Nor do members of Congress with close NRA ties who scare the populace and encourage sedition face any consequences.

  • Kamhawi is facing sedition charges from the nervous regime for, as he puts it, “saying what I am saying to you.”

  • Waited to hear what she would make, even at this early hearing, of the charge he faced: sedition.

  • There was little reason to hope that this, the third city in India, should not yield readily to sedition-mongers.

  • John Smith was later charged with sedition, acquitted, and finally restored to his rightful council position.

  • No one knows better than I that it is, at the present moment, honeycombed with sedition and anarchical impulses.

  • He ascribed the measures taken to repress sedition and defeat the French propaganda as attempts at tyranny.

  • The sedition cases were mostly heard before the lord-justice clerk Braxfield, who behaved with scandalous harshness and severity.