sedition Definition
se·di·tion (si dis̸h′ən)
sedition Related Forms
se·di′·tion·ar′y noun, adjective
se·di′·tion·ist noun
sedition Synonyms
sedition
n.
sedition Law Definition
n
An activity or communication
aimed at overthrowing governmental authority. Sedition acts were passed in the
United States as early as 1798 and as recently as World War I. The United
States Supreme Court ruled in 1919 that communications urging sedition could
only be punished if there was a clear and present danger. Otherwise, it was a
contradiction of the First Amendments guarantee of free speech.
sedition Usage Examples
Converse of object
- cause: On the days following this meeting these three men were arrested and charged under DORA with the offense of intending to cause sedition.
- foment: For this purpose former German Communist agents were employed to foment sedition and to arrange for acts of sabotage in Germany.
- shift: If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot.
- spread: By 1531 the king was demanding the surrender of Tyndale by the Emperor, on the charge that he was spreading sedition in England.
- regard: But publications were still subject to the laws of the land regarding sedition, blasphemy, obscenity and libel.
- find: They took me into the guard-house and searched me, but they found no sedition on me.
Adjective modifier
- secular: And how Dahl, who believed passionately in spreading secular sedition, would have enjoyed it.
- political: What is more dangerous tho is the incitement to political sedition.
Modifies a noun
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