rebeldomn.

1852 Brownson's Q. Rev. Jan. 136 We would most respectfully ask whence it comes that we are to be the second, or the bottle-holder, of universal Rebeldom?

1861 N.Y. Times 17 Dec. 4/3 If we were to search the whole of Rebeldom, no persons so justly obnoxious to the North, could have been found as these just caught.

1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 110 Rebeldom, where a Union man's life was worth about a chinquapin.

1901 J. M. Bell Poet. Wks. 115 He deems the rebels more Worthy positions than before..And fain would from the very scurf, E'en as from the rising surf Of rebeldom, at once create Grand officers of high estate.

1966 Business Hist. Rev. 40 219 Local committees of safety sometimes confiscated a shipment on the grounds that its ultimate destination was ‘Rebeldom’.

1998 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 27 Jan. a1 Missouri legislators have introduced a spate of bills aimed at curbing the rites of modern teen-age rebeldom: tattooing, body piercing, loud radio-playing–and even driving.

1999 R. J. Higgs & R. L. Turner Cowboy Way ix. 200 The mythical origin of the organization—that is, unreconstructed rebeldom—is mentioned several times.

1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians li Never mind his rebeldom of the other day.