insurrectionary
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From insurrection + -ary.
Adjective
[edit]insurrectionary (comparative more insurrectionary, superlative most insurrectionary)
- Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection.
- The brutal crackdown on protests has only served to galvanize the insurrectionary mood in the country.
- 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 31:
- Politics, as the adage goes, is first experienced at home, and the autocratic Dr Gallo had ruled his household in a manner that was so oppressive and so patently unjust that Tony had grown used to thinking of himself in insurrectionary terms.
Synonyms
[edit]Noun
[edit]insurrectionary (plural insurrectionaries)
- One who takes part in insurrection.