sedition
C2CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General noun
Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against authority.
The pamphleteer was arrested for sedition after urging soldiers to abandon their posts.
Law noun
Conduct or speech inciting rebellion against the authority of the state or sovereign.
The pamphleteer was prosecuted for sedition after urging soldiers to disobey their orders.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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