itio

a going

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Speaker openly urges rebellion using brief functional placard reading only OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT, emphatic raised hand toward distant generic government-column icon; educational depiction, no named group or tactical detail, white ground.

noun

sedition

sih-DISH-un/sɪˈdɪʃn/

Speech or conduct encouraging rebellion against lawful authority.

Etymology

sedLatinapart, aside

+itionLatina going

Literally a “going apart,” the Latin compound came to mean civil dissension or rebellion. English extended that sense to speech or conduct that incites rebellion against government.

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