How do you use the word "insurrection" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "insurrection" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "insurrection": The demonstration was hardly an insurrection -- on the contrary, people were rather peaceful. Tom was arrested for inciting an insurrection.

Insurrection Meaning

/ˌɪnsəˈɹɛkʃn̩/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe action of part or all of a national population violently rising up against the government or other authority; (countable) an instance of this; a revolt, an uprising; specifically, one that is at an initial stage or limited in nature.

Sentence Examples

The demonstration was hardly an insurrection -- on the contrary, people were rather peaceful.

Tom was arrested for inciting an insurrection.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

revolt uprising rebellion

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The king's loyal army quickly stopped the dangerous ____ before it spread throughout the land.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The military leader led an ____ against the peaceful government and declared himself the dictator.

Word Origin & History

From Late Middle English insurreccion (“uprising against a government, rebellion, revolt; civil disorder, riot; illegal armed assault”) [and other forms], from Middle French insurrection, Old French insurreccïon (modern French insurrection), and from their etymon Latin īnsurrēctiōnem (rare), the accusative singular of īnsurrēctiō (“rising up, insurrection, rebellion”), from īnsurgō (“to rise up”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + surgō (“to arise, get up; to rise”) (from sub- (prefix meaning ‘(from) beneath, under’) + regō (“to direct, govern, rule; to guide, steer; to manage, oversee”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to right oneself, straighten; just; right”))).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"After this, by the great wiſedome and politic of the Nobles and Captaynes, a communication was had, and an agreement made vppon the Kings pardon, obtayned for all the Captaynes and chiefe doers in this inſurrection, and promiſe made that they ſhoulde bee gentlye heard, to declare ſuch things as they found themſelues agreeued with, […]" — 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “King Henry the Eyghte”, in The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume II, London: […] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, page 1568, column 2:

"And therefore if God afterward gave, or permitted this inſurrection of Epiſcopacy, it is to be fear'd he did it in his wrath, as he gave the Iſraelites a King." — 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, “That Prelaty Was Not Set Up for Prevention of Schisme, as is Pretended, or if It Were, that It Performes Not What It Was First Set Up for, but Quite the Contrary”, in The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 29:

"Our own experience has corroborated the leſſons taught by the examples of other nations; […] that ſeditions and inſurrections are unhappily maladies as inſeparable from the body politic, as tumours and eruptions from the natural body; […]" — 1788, Publius [pseudonym; Alexander Hamilton], “Number XXVIII. The Same Subject Continued. [The Necessity of a Government, at Least Equally Energetic with the One Proposed.].”, in The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, […] , volume I, New York, N.Y.: […] J. and A. M‘Lean, […], →OCLC, page 173:

"He returned to Spain, and was now on his way to join and take command of an insurrection, whose success was to be the touchstone of their countrymen." — 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 85:

"Thinking more metaphorically, his American contemporary James Russell Lowell wrote: “It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.” Had he lived to the year 2021, he might have changed his mind." — 2021 January 13, Steven Poole, “'Insurrection': how an old word for an old thing was Trumped”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021:

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