insurrectionary
of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
given to or causing insurrection.
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How to use insurrectionary in a sentence
According to the Fourteenth Amendment, elected officials who encourage the kind of insurrectionary violence witnessed on January 6, 2021 are subject to a permanent ban from office.
Our Nation Is Still Divided Along the Battle Lines of the Civil War | Jeremi Suri | May 6, 2022 | TimeThat means holding leaders accountable for encouraging the insurrectionary attempt by deliberately lying to their followers about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
The similarities to the last invasion of the Capitol matter — so do the differences | Lawrence Hatter | January 11, 2021 | Washington PostThink of late Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, who described rape as “insurrectionary” in his bestselling memoir, Soul on Ice.
insurrectionary movements at Rome in consequence of the pope's refusal to declare war against Austria.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellIn March the insurrectionary movement spread from Lombardy to Piedmont.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year | Edwin Emerson
Practically this Congress was an insurrectionary government, but no blow was struck until the spring of 1775.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind | Herbert George WellsI feel some stirrings of the insurrectionary spirit myself when I see the red pantaloons at every turn in the streets of Rome.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3) | George EliotSecondly, the insurrectionary career once entered upon, act with the greatest determination, and on the offensive.
Revolution and Counter-Revolution | Karl Marx
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