rebellion

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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rebellion (rɪˈbɛljən)

—n
1.	organized resistance or opposition to a government or other authority
2.	dissent from an accepted moral code or convention of behaviour, dress, etc

[C14: via Old French from Latin rebelliō revolt (of those conquered); see rebel]

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Example sentences

Their resistance set off a rebellion that raged for more than a decade and cost

tens of thousands of lives.

And his rebellion came at the precise moment that the old social models were

also weakening.

Sometimes truth and virtue require dissent and rebellion.

One is his willingness to do whatever it takes to put down the rebellion.

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Matching Quote

"The warning given to Louis XVI: "No, sire, this is not a rebellion, it is a revolution," accents the essential difference. It means precisely that "it is the absolute certainty of a new form of government." Rebellion is, by nature, limited in scope. It is no more than an incoherent pronouncement. Revolution, on the contrary, originates in the realm of ideas. Specifically, it is the injection of ideas into historical experience, while rebellion is only the movement that leads from individual experience into the realm of ideas. While even the collective history of a movement of rebellion is always that of a fruitless struggle with facts, of an obscure protest which involves neither methods nor reasons, a revolution is an attempt to shape action to ideas, to fit the world into a theoretic frame. That is why rebellion kills men while revolution destroys both men and principles."

-Albert Camus