Associations to the word «Insurrection»

Wiktionary

INSURRECTION, noun. A violent uprising of part or all of a national population against the government or other authority; a mutiny; a rebellion.

Dictionary definition

INSURRECTION, noun. Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats