sedition
noun
se·di·tion
si-ˈdi-shən 
: incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority
Examples of sedition in a Sentence
The leaders of the group have been arrested and charged with sedition.
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Lai, 76, the founder of the defunct pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of sedition and collusion with foreign forces in a landmark national security trial that is widely seen as a test of Hong Kong’s press freedom and judicial independence.
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Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
The verdict was postponed several times for reasons including a wait for an appeal outcome in another landmark sedition case.
—Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition.
—Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
Former Stand News editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen and former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam are the first journalists convicted under a colonial-era sedition law since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
—Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
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Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
The verdict was postponed several times for reasons including a wait for an appeal outcome in another landmark sedition case.
—Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition.
—Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
Former Stand News editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen and former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam are the first journalists convicted under a colonial-era sedition law since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
—Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Sedition.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sedition. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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sedition
noun
se·di·tion
si-ˈdish-ən
: the stirring up of feelings against lawful authority
Legal Definition
sedition
noun
se·di·tion
si-ˈdi-shən
: the crime of creating a revolt, disturbance, or violence against lawful civil authority with the intent to cause its overthrow or destruction compare criminal syndicalism, sabotage
seditiously
adverb
Etymology
Latin seditio, literally, separation, from sed apart + itio act of going, from ire to go
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