insurgencyn.
/ɪnˈsəːdʒənsi/ The quality or state of being insurgent; the tendency to rise in revolt; = insurgence n.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [noun] > principle of or disposition to
tumultuousnessa1617
tumultuariness1649
insurgency1803
insurgescence1881
insurrectionism1889
1803 Edwin III. 174 The internal insurgency he feared not putting a speedy termination to by the vigour of his proceedings.
1822 Examiner 273/2 The consequence..would be riot, insurgency, and rapine.
1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 33 731 The Insurgency was not put down.
1856 L. H. Grindon Life (1875) xvi. 204 Good books alleviate care, repress the insurgency of evil passions.
1879 G. Meredith Egoist III. ix. 173 The circumstance of its prevailing successfulness..heaped stores of insurgency in the Celtic bosom.
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